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perhaps we should be asking another question: do we want the urban unit to survive?
Why wouldn't we want the urban unit to survive?
the urban unit has to because everything except protected land in the future will be urban what we need is to renovate it now ans do smart building. if in a big city make tall building green houses have rain water catchers on all buildings that can go be filtered as a means for water when city water gets exposed to things and can be used as extra support in putting out fires. as well as solar and pedestrian power and where it isnt urban yet but its starting to build up build smart.
urban areas must be decentralised for equitable resources.conncentration of most resources is leading to overpopulation in the urban.

it is on this note that even the rural areas have to be considered in resource allocations.

ombajo edward-----kenya
The question of urbanization needs to be looked at in two different ways. In much of the developing world the last thing the planet needs is more people moving into cities that offer nothing but the hope of a better life. Conditions in the countryside may be abominable, poor housing, sanitation and prospects for a better life. Drought and pestilence may have wiped out what meager resorces these folks had. If these people stay in the countryside their future is nasty, brutish and short.Unable to support themselves these people flock to the cities lookling for non existing employment. In such places urbanization compounds and worsens their plight. In such places the better alternative is to restore a viable and sustainable rural and agrarian way of life and get these people back onto the land where they can sustain themselves. In such regions urbanization is not the right model. in the Western world, however, urbanization, or rather, re-urbanization may actually be a better alternative. In many North American cities, which were previously manufacturing centers, we have seen their populations plummet leaving vaste wastelands of empty lots and derelict buildings and many of the previous inhabitants spread out to suburban regions where they now occupy formerly agricultural lands and use huge energy resources to move about in their private cars. Here we would be better off if we could get these suburbanites to move back into the cities and revitalize them, returning parking lots and sprawl to farming or just reforestation. in other words, whether urban units should flourish or not depends on what part of the world we are dealing with. Lagos and Detroit are two very different worlds.

nomadHAR said:
perhaps we should be asking another question: do we want the urban unit to survive?
am just discovering also that the villages are going urban. how true this is depends on the view point.help me out of this observation.

ombajo edward

Urban Resilience is by definition “capability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from significant multi-hazard threats with minimum damage to public safety and health, the economy, and security" This is saying that we need to learn and think about bad things that could happen and solutions for it and also to think about the problems we have today and how to fix them.

Does innovation come out of disaster? I saw a lot of eco friendly objects in the " knew" Los Angelas.

The urban resilience really put into perspective of what a small group of EVOKE agents can do to improve the community.

What's so wrong living in the urban life/cities?

I need help understanding how they could suddenly sand board and they don't have enough agents hoping either.

I don't have any questions.

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