As per suggestions from the Neighborhoods Task Force, students will no longer be required to stay in their neighborhood after their first year, Stanford Report announced Thursday.
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The Neighborhoods Task Force is charged with improving the residential neighborhood system, which has been the subject of student criticism over the course of its two years in existence.
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Left (top-bottom): SMU Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society Winston Chow; SMU Associate Professor Humanities Orlando Woods.
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SMU Office of Research & Tech Transfer - For most of human history, populations across the world lived in low-density, rural settings. Over the past few centuries, however, this changed dramatically with the trend of urbanisation. Today, more than four billion people live in urban settings worldwide; by 2050, about two thirds of the world s population are expected to live in cities.
Despite their rapid growth, cities do not spring up fully formed, but are shaped by evolving human constructs including government policy, legal frameworks and emerging technologies. It is precisely because much of human life is now led in cities that it is essential to examine these constructs and their implicat