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back in 2008, nearly 15 years ago. we had a really significant milestone in human history. around the world, more people were living in cities than in rural areas. today about 56 percent of the world's population is earth and by 2050, you'll be nearly 70 percent. cities have the potential to be really efficient. hubs of humanity that can support sustainable living. however, many of them haven't been designed that way. and so urban plan is around the world now trying to create green or smart city. but just how green or smart are these urban innovations? and do they result in a green, a city for everyone, or just a chosen few? i the steady flow of humanity from rural to urban centers had given us the phenomenon of the make a city, a city with a population of 10000000 or more. back in 1950 on the new york and tokyo qualified for the title by 1980. they were joined by mexico city, sao paolo and osaka, in 2010. there were more than 20 megacity started across almost every continent. today, there around 33 major cities and by 2030 it's predicted 9 percent of the global population will live in one of 43 mega cities. the magnetic pull of city living is not surprising. cities away, 80 percent of the global economies anchored. there also where 70 to 75 percent of energy related global c o. 2 emissions stem from. i spoke to 3 urban us from spain, nigeria and south africa to find out why openness zation should be at the heart of any conversation about the planets future. so cities or paradoxically both the primary source of some of the environmental challenges we face, especially climate change. but it is also the place where we can solve these problems because of aggregates intelligence people, the economy, value, resources, and so forth. for teams use for economy. well, up rent and we also have opportunity tens gave industry at she asked to reach and was over the market because of the skill because of the diversity. but we'll start so by from original also from the challenge, for example, the market, the consequences that that might have for stress or girl. and also of climate. because we sure did also huge producers of carbon emissions because of the deep extraction of resources and materials from the hinterlands on which cities depend. and, and i think one of the last reasons why it's important to include cities is because of the impacts of climate change on urban residents and infrastructure so many vulnerable groups including working class residents in workers. the elderly racialized minorities, are facing flawed eng, heat island effects, they are agglomeration in just a small space, really calls for action. the design of our cities has to factor in, not only exponential population growth, but also i think, a carrier state of climate. one thing urban fine is argue strongly against is role that is spaced out living. not only is it in practical, when space is at a premium which softening senses. it's also unsustainable because of an inefficient use of resources. we need to compare the urban form and you need to increase densities. and by the way, density can also be good for cultural diversity for special integration, for social integration. and so the planning language that of emerged to advance this of this idea what they call transit orient development. so you focus on a called public transit system that allows people to, to cycle more to walk more to pedestrian lies, more road spaces, but also to cluster various kinds of activities in the same building or in the same area. there are different models that are being advanced here, such as the 15 minute city or the 30 men at city. others called about bringing streets backs to, to pedestrians and to residence in barcelona. for example, 40 percent of our st. space is 4 cars. and so that amount of carbon emissions and burden on the lives of the residents health is definitely something that sees on our trying to grapple. the push for decomposition and urban greening is growing and rightly so, it is created a widely shed template of what green city should look like. shiny residential towers, waterfront parks, and primarily more wealthy residence. but the parks cafes and a river walk model of the same ability as being critique to providing you green spaces main for the middle classes and hopeless. what you could call green gentrification. these real estate propositions to develop new areas now take on a language of sustainability or climate smock development. what this means is that it's not just that they offer exciting statically pleasing real estate propositions . but they also say these are low carbon buildings. you can live year with a conscience. and so we've seen the alignment of sustainability imperatives with classic real estate regeneration initiatives to create a new class of gentrification which was green change vacation grange if occasion is a growing process of inequality and displacement and removal in cities that put a lot of emphasis on urban greening many cities have an agenda that is linked to greening public space says what was happening along the way, is that greening contributes to the construction of new high end, generally large scale housing that's becoming more expensive, but also higher property values and property prices. there's higher housing costs for working class and middle class residence and reading can also contribute to segregation in public space. and as an important aspect that sometimes gets this mess. so i've been greening can at times be less of a climate centric move and more of a high and real estate development proposition. it can help attract investment attention residents, and rather than incentivize the hard work of di compensation, it can encourage superficial purification. that adjusted distraction greening can contribute to a form of, let's say, urban as i'm in some cases. so you take the line and it's 2 vertical skyscrapers called the bosco therapy. got a 17 and 24 floors of luxury housing. well, the amount of concrete that it is right, required to produce those buildings is being offset by the 1500 trees and 15000 plans that those buildings you know, beautifully. i advertise for their fonts and then what we wanted to see is home organ greening contributes. to the marketing of housing for ex pats for temporary residents for torres. lacking barcelona in a neighborhood called and problem. no, we now have a green resilient corridor call. could he's still on the modem, which is meant to address. he died on effects and storm water management. he shoes . well, it's great fine when he barcelona is turning away from being a city really ready dominated by concrete, public spaces to being a city that's integrating nature. however, if you look at the area just around it, you see at least 5 new luxury hotel, you see a luxury student housing, and you see a type of resident that was long term, traditional resident being displaced by it's kind of combination between tourism real estate and greening isabel, you've sent evan greeny gentrified cities, forrest sustainability costs. what do you mean by this? we see many spaces that were meant to be public and open, that after a while, become privatized, or that becomes who bye, bye millennials. i'm coming there to consume in high and restaurant that are often adjacent to those luxury building that in that, in that sense, rather than being for their residence, for whom there were advertised, the subject space is become segregated. that's what some colleagues of mine called the sustainability class, meaning that you might have supposedly a more local lifestyle because you have everything within walking distance. but many of them use you verse. you have a very high travel consumption through planes is i think we have to be very careful here about what greening needs. greening is much more complex and it seems from a distance. it involves a lot more than just injecting nature into concrete, junkies, holistic approach to developing a sustainable city has to factor in equity. the possibilities of displacement the dangers of superficial short term d cabin izing. this long term structurally significant changes that reduce emissions without this kind of multi layered approach a campaign to make a city greenow could result in what's called green loose that is locally unwanted land uses. basically these a spaces that may seem better from a low cost perspective, but a contested by poor and marginalized classes as the area has become greener and more gentrified. gentrification which accompanies the greening of cities becoming such a pervasive motor of displacement of inequality because even the middle class itself can not afford to live in the center of the city and is being displaced. 101520 miles away. and so when residents talk about green, no news, what they're talking about is not i don't want greening in my neighbourhood. on the contrary, i know what that greening over the mid term he's going to produce. to me, it's going to accelerate housing cost. the investment and construction industry have successfully financial ice housing, so that what is, in fact a fundamental human right has been re cost as a way to park and grow capital. now, greening is the latest way to continue to sell homes as investment vehicles. it pushed towards capturing no more reach emerging middle class as you see in africa, why it was access aspects hub spending power and aspire? no, well, indicators of states or the other thing is that for many of us, but learning prior to the charleston internet can use them. i'm not so strong investing in house and in his retirement. ready law where by like it will leave yon. they are working like based on rooms that you me. and i think when many economists lane that what we need to bring affordable housing back to cities is to build more housing. so that demand and offer become a bit more equalized. actually, the main problem there is that the housing being built 80 percent of it is high and housing. so. ready what you only contribute, you is a greater housing price bubble and a greater concentration of housing access for the upper and middle upper class residents. so how do you build equity in and ensure that greening and environmental cleanup doesn't lead to green. gentrification? on the one hand, you need anti displacement and i'm tied gentrification strategies and tools such as regulations to short term housing, many more regulations towards hotel constructions, air b and b, other cities, yours taxes on luxury development or have rent controlled and even rent decrease policies. and on the other hand, you need much more inclusive grain development, meaning space for community gardens, for farms, for informal grading for form, or is that a gold reading? that is maybe less glossy, less flashing, but i really responds to their recreational in the health needs of residents. it's impossible to address this problem with out, also addressing the underlying, rational of and development growth models that private property is sacrosanct. and it is clear that we've got to recognize land as a cummins resource and not an individual resource for private accumulation. this of course implies complete paradigm shift in the financial models that underpin how cities are invested in and how cities are reproduced. so that's a big ask, but dealing with these systemic questions for me is a precondition for solving the a fuel symptomatic problem of, of displacement. a lot of attention is given to the housing crises in so called superstar cities in the global north london, frankfurt new york sydney to name just a few, but it's bad as the housing affordability crisis is in these expensive cities, is even worse in rapidly urbanized regions of the global south, where rents a share of income, average 100 percent, a 150 percent to 100 percent or even higher in these areas. urban ization has outpace development, resulting in the creation of teeming but dysfunctional megacities, such as lagos, karachi, kinshasa, and deca. of the $33.00 megacities on the planet right now. 26 are in the global south. in fact, 90 percent of feature growth is going to be located in asia and africa with africa set to double its urban population. in the next 30 years, if nigerian population continues to grow and urbanized at the same rate as now, lagos could become the world's largest metropolis home to 85 or 100000000 people. a lot of the conversations around the migration no onst migration of africans to the globe, romanov. whereas a lot of the migration that's happening is happening within the continent, across country for primary and directed us. they have young people from the insurance is trying to move walk proposal communities for those who are not so fortunate. as you know, basic education. they're also moving this time around. they're getting philips in, in the info, mog, on the new which come areas up to 80 percent of people in the labor force in african cities. ah, engage with informal economic act of it. in other words, they don't have a permanent industrial job. they don't have regular steady wages. they've got to hustle all the time. now if your income is variable and precarious angelo, then it also means that you can't live for me. you end up living in a slope. so this is really the distinct effect of african unable zation. as our cities continue to grow when that carbon emissions balloon, there's often a misplaced focus on population growth as the key driver of increased pollution. it's a simplistic rating that mistakes correlation for the cause. because was really at the root of rising emissions in our growing cities is often carbon intensive, urban design, and city living. especially in the global north. there is a deep injustice which is that residents of the global south and especially lower income residents, although to help reduce the least carbon emissions almost exposed to the impacts of climate change. have the fewer resources to cope. and on top of that, i would say are those would benefit the lease from climate resilient infrastructure and might even be displaced by it. over the past decade, multiple african countries have tried to untangle some of the knots in how their big cities have developed by proposing urban utopias. often called smart cities or tech cities. they promised to solve the problems of poverty and economic stagnation through tech enabled citizen, responsive and carbon neutral urban planning. tatters city represents a new way of living for all canyons creating a unique live work and play environment so far, so good. however, when you pro, beyond the big promises and the snap li, written marketing spiel, there is often a gap between ambitions for eco friendly cities and the complications of building ideal urban spaces amidst existing structures and systems. because a lot of the cities, especially in the global south, are really complicated missy places miss is m, they've got multiple systems of organizational, formal and informal, multiple forms of governance. again, formal and informal. they feel it is almost impossible to intervene to those context. and to create an environment within which you can test these new cutting edge, smart city technologies. so they them persuaded to say, why don't you go to a site and you can really create the ideal imagined city of the future. that is free of all of those complications nigerian aspirations to develop an african model. megacity has produced echo atlantic a brand new coastal city that has been in development since 2009 in lagos, state. the plans include everything from skyscrapers to luxury apartments and financial district to private power grid and a shopping boulevard. in the image of you york's 5th avenue, all of this high end of business zation sits on land reclaimed from the atlantic ocean. the developers said that the creation of this city rather than causing any environmental complications, would in fact help tackle long running issues of erosion along. and i, jerry is southwestern coast fed them all the documentation, the eco atlantic says the reclamation and associated activities may cause disturbance to the local water quality. however, with the implementation of best practice measures on site effects would be only of a minor nature. many of the grand designs that were men to accompany echo atlantic as just not come to pass. but more importantly, ironically, this development has actually exacerbated certain climate change impacts in the city of lag ups. and so what these new terms do is they suck in all of the available public resources for infrastructure and innovation into these sites. and it means that nothing is being attended to in terms of the real cities that already exist, where the majority of people live. so it is not just that they are often inappropriate context, but also they have a distraction effect. the other thing is that where we walked onto stanza dig used to be the legal squad, which unfortunately creation about it. i learned is there me jo, manifestation judge kish, whereby it green solution has come and has effectively removed this all the entire incentives for the benefit of the 200 or so 1000 who will eventually in happened? very good engineering idea. handle that or the average legless chances thousands resonates. if you're new to the urban renewal st. you probably wondering why and how smart city projects have become so ubiquitous would be part of the answer lies in global management. consultancies that are doing roaring business in urban planning. companies like boston consulting group, accenture and the kinsey. why is climate adaptation so important for africa? african cities, the consulting firms, talk a good talk about how to develop cities in addition to build, there was a different structure. we need to build resume in community inclusion, sustainability, equitability. all of these reliably included in plans for privately funded so called cities of the future. however, these shiny visions often don't marry up with principles of social or climate justice. it's not surprising. there's something called the global city with ability ranks. and all cities jostled to get on to those listings. they put cities into a pecking order. a couple of the criteria can be yet land ish, if you some of them have been ridiculous. indicators like the number of stores i city like lake cost where many people are leaving below the poverty level. and that's the big redone guns ridiculous indicator of how smart that's because people like, if you get online or have access to the internet from device is all good and reduced by apple. i can see why they are pursued and why they make sense to set to policy leaders. and so, but of course, you know, they only measure of certain things. and so they never give you a holistic picture of what is actually going on in a particular city. often times being on the leave, your believe you're supposed to be followed by federal truck for in fact, i think that's why many of the up there's on and i remember from legacy. so even though we're doing so poorly at least well on the index, with more than 50 percent of humanity living in urban settings, cities are right on the front lines of the climate crisis. how they develop function and evolve all have an impact. the buzz around cities and their efforts to develop sustainably all sounds very promising. in october 2022 the see 40 summit i gathering of mass from cities across the world took place and went us aires. argentina, 340 mares are united to inaction to lead the transition away from pollution base economies to a people center future by creative cleaner, greener, unfair cities. it's a biggest cities have complex networks of power and money and navigating those overlapping and often competing interests is a huge challenge, especially when the effort is to transition to an urban system. good, not just towards climate justice but social justice as well. what becomes difficult is to actually control developers and make developers abide by search and regulations because you're afraid of pushing developers away. so you really deep dependence at the local level on real estate development for financing schools. for financing a public hospitals for financing firefighters makes you really be quite trapped. if you don't have deeper support at the state and federal level, it is really, really important that cities have more space and scope to do the radical things and to become the exemplars of the kind of political transformation we need. the challenge with all of this is that the is certainly a lot of scope full greenwashing. so what we've seen with a lot of the global networks and the declarations and so forth, is that a lot of effort is expanded to present a picture and to present a story that a certain city is infected, payment is green. we had to know that you can be a sustainable city while maintaining driving economy, but actually less than 5 percent of day to day operations of the functioning municipalities as actually change. it is pretty much business as usual, but they invest a significant amount in communications and marketing to tell a different story. it isn't enough for outgoing cities, could simply be low carbon or sustainable climate justice that makes equity and fairness equally as important as low emissions and waste meets with central modern, urban planning. after all, climate change is causing problem for everyone. it only makes sense that the solutions we built for everyone to choose the people not for profit. apple products each very the company that the huge populations undertaking. there is no blueprint. we have to take each city in its own historical cultural setting and understand what is needed and those product has to be set by the citizen themselves. and then see how do we transition onto a marine kluso and sustainable news. news. news. news. news. 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