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View all search resultsCommunications and Information Minister Rudiantara said in Jakarta on Wednesday that the government planed to provide cellular phone users in all cities and regencies across the country with fourth generation (4G) broadband cellular networks in 2019.
The late governor Ali Sadikin said in 1977 “people that are forced to live in the margins of the city are those who need more attention and to receive the benefits of development.” Residents replied, “we want to be guided, so that we can do business without the fear of being targeted by the police.”
If you follow the news, you might have a skewed perspective of modern cities. They are painted as places under constant threat of all manner of social ills, polluted to the core and filled with malevolent psychopaths hell-bent on causing chaos.
Whether the record temperatures were directly linked with greenhouse gas emissions, most scientists agree that climate change will make extreme weather more likely. And climate change is critical to the future being considered right now at the World Cities Summit in Singapore.It is one of the world’s biggest challenges. On the one hand, ever more people on the planet, and rising standards of living, generating a bigger and bigger demand for energy. On the other, the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. And cities are at the heart of the solution.
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