Robert Muggah: The biggest risks facing cities -- and some solutions
Robert Muggah: 城市面临的最大风险—以及解决方案
Robert Muggah creates tools to understand cycles of violence in urban environments and opens dialogues on ways to confront them globally. Full bio
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experiment in social engineering
urban population does --
wealthier, better educated
are moving to cities
they're dynamic, they're democratic,
to reactionary nationalism.
of the world's surface area,
of our energy consumption,
of our greenhouse gases.
of people who die in our cities
as a result of car accidents
巴西一国占据25个
cities on the planet.
have chronic water shortages --
有长期水资源短缺的问题
of the known water reserves.
in the West and the Far East,
about the thousands of cities
population growth is set to take place.
through the lens of nation-states.
in a 17th-century paradigm
coming into their own,
of the world's population
城市人口将增长到百分之七十
closer to 70 percent.
that are beginning to rival them
of 80 billion dollars.
than Argentina and Australia,
police departments in the world,
the largest nation-states.
their weight economically,
their political voice
a little bit about the risks
about some of the solutions.
using a big data visualization
CREATE Lab and my institute,
不是由国家所组成的世界
not as made up of nation-states,
of a quarter million people or more.
the more fragile that city is,
the more resilient.
the social contract comes unstuck.
of multiple kinds of risks:
cyclones and earthquakes.
are more fragile than others.
a permanent condition.
fragile cities in the world,
around the national average.
that fragility is deepening,
that are most vulnerable,
以我们无法想象的程度在加深
way beyond scales we've ever seen before.
城市将会崩溃
they can collapse,
refugees in the world today,
since the second world war.
you might read in the news,
aren't fleeing from poor countries
into even poorer cities --
represents an agonizing story
about what's not on that map,
who have been internally displaced
in refugee-like conditions,
protection and assistance.
叙利亚经历了有史以来最严重的干旱
in its history between 2007 and 2010.
and 85 percent of its livestock
over a million people moved into cities
of social unrest.
began cracking down,
internally displaced people,
to neighboring countries like Jordan
towards Western Europe.
made the perilous journey
and up through Turkey
into two countries, primarily:
也产生了海平面上升的问题
existential threats
of the world's cities are coastal.
容易被淹没的沿海地区
flood-prone coastal areas.
that shows sea level rise
that we're going to see
and 30 feet of sea level rise
that are going to suffer --
或者是所罗门斯或者是斯里兰卡
or the Solomons or Sri Lanka --
people or more
the face of this earth.
要不然就是死
or they're going to die.
all the way over to the West,
或者非洲或者拉丁美洲的问题
in Asia or Africa or Latin America,
is one of the wealthiest cities
我们已经看出来了它的受影响程度
by natural disasters throughout 2017.
它的基础是多空石灰岩
on porous limestone -- a swamp.
the water from seeping in.
and along the Gulf,
worst from natural crises --
as those situations have been,
for what's to come.
to its rural hinterland
to the production of food.
of the Amazon, in Rondônia.
terrestrial carbon sinks,
every single year.
over a 30-year period.
cleared for pasture, for cattle,
on a massive scale.
of forest over the last 14 years.
蓝色的区域其实没有很多
there's not much --
as the situation is -- and it is --
to the municipal level,
a lattice -- of parks and protected areas.
and not always limiting encroachment,
to tamp back deforestation.
还横跨整个美洲
but all across the Americas,
and around the world.
at the highest levels,
of the Paris Climate Agreement,
and thousands more around the world
on so-called "undocumented migrants"
and states sat up in defiance
to see a lot more of it,
and Latin America are urbanizing
the global average
增加巨大的压力
on infrastructure and services.
in the next 10 to 20 years,
在接下来的10年至20年期间,
principles of resilience into our cities.
that are emerging.
of urban planners,
principles keep coming out.
don't actually have a plan
却忽略了远观计划
to think ahead strategically.
或者更糟
from the book of Singapore.
制定了一个50年的都市化策略
a 50-year urban strategy
不只是持续的重要性
is not just the importance of continuity,
of autonomy and discretion.
to be able to issue debt,
than a devolution revolution,
renegotiating the terms of the contract
global decarbonization efforts.
pricing schemes,
and bikeways and walkways
they have to choose from.
和风能领域注入重大投资
in renewables -- in solar and wind --
和亚洲某些区域
in Western Europe and parts of Asia.
right now in the world today
complete energy autonomy.
comes from Medellín,
hydroelectric plant,
its local needs,
back onto the national grid.
other cities just like it.
and multi-use solutions.
往往是那些最成功的城市
that are going to invest in solutions
but that solve multiple problems.
public transport.
emissions and congestion.
over the last 30 years,
of Seoul's residents get to work
public transport systems
how to build resiliently,
of Dallas-Fort Worth.
also doubled over the last 30 years.
into edge cities and suburbia
有机会使用公交系统
to work using public transport -- five.
some of the longest commuting times
pilfering, stealing,
to leapfrog to get there.
that's doing a lot of stealing,
is only going to be enabled
from one another.
inner-city coalitions in the world today.
for nation-states.
Parliament of Mayors,
将数千个城市聚集在一起
that has gathered thousands together
is that when cities work together,
也在世界舞台上
but on the global stage.
potentially, a vote --
on their national sovereignty,
that the local and the global
our politics accordingly.
和文明领袖们见面时
and meet mayors and civic leaders,
enthusiasm and effectiveness
international uncertainty,
institutions are paralyzed
21st-century visionaries.
a right to -- a seat at the table.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Robert Muggah - Megacities expertRobert Muggah creates tools to understand cycles of violence in urban environments and opens dialogues on ways to confront them globally.
Why you should listen
Robert Muggah drills down through shadowy data on arms trafficking, urban violence and resilience in search of answers for a rapidly urbanizing society’s most troubling questions: Why are cities so violent, and increasingly fragile? Why are conflicts within nations replacing conflicts between them? And what strategies can we implement to reduce violence?
Muggah's high-tech toolkit includes new ways for citizens to collect, collate and understand data, such as the mapping arms data (MAD) tool. As the research director of the Igarapé Institute and the SecDev Foundation, he developed the tool in collaboration with the Peace Research Institute Oslo and with Google Ideas, winning accolades for the transparency it brings to the debate.
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