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How Ukraine’s Recovery From War Can Inform Kyiv’s Car-driven Chaos

ZFTWARNING — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 21:18:41 +0000

How Ukraine’s Recovery From War Can Inform Kyiv’s Car-driven Chaos

Urban operations specialist Dr. Russell W. Glenn provides insights into recovery from urban warfare from experience in Ukraine. Here, Dr. Glenn reviews the impact of urban conflict on traffic and parking. These insights draw from the research for Dr. Glenn's new book "Brutal Catalyst: What Ukraine's Cities Tell Us About Recovery From War" (KeyPoint Press, 2024).

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“Fragile” Cities: What We are Getting Wrong and Why it is Important to Get it Right

SWJED — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 05:50:38 +0000

“Fragile” Cities: What We are Getting Wrong and Why it is Important to Get it Right SWJED Mon, 11/05/2018 - 12:50am

To map potential scenarios resulting from risks associated with contemporary challenges, we need to consider alternative explanations to scarcity-induced contention and dystopic visions of conflict in cities.

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The Challenge of Africa’s Cities

SWJED — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 16:13:07 +0000

The Challenge of Africa’s Cities SWJED Tue, 10/16/2018 - 12:13pm

Africa’s cities are an assault on the senses. They are filled with a flow of human activity that can appear equal parts vibrant and dystopian. One need only transit Lagos’s Third Mainland Bridge or Kinshasa’s Boulevard Lumumba to get a sense of this frenetic pace and the complex ecosystem of social and economic interaction that allows African urban dwellers to survive and even thrive.

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Ten Million is Not Enough: Coming to Grips with Megacities’ Challenges and Opportunities

SWJED — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 23:37:23 +0000

Ten Million is Not Enough: Coming to Grips with Megacities’ Challenges and Opportunities

In 2008 over half of the world's population lived in urban areas - at that point more of earth’s residents lived in built-up areas than there were people in the world forty years before.

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