![]() ![]() While the pandemic continues to redefine the urban life around the world, local communities are also working hard to keep people safe and maintain economic activities.Īs the cities around the world ponder the future, they also look for inspiration to those daring communities that successfully devise and implement sustainable solutions for resilient urban living. Resilient cities have the ability to absorb, recover and prepare for future shocks – economic, environmental and social. While over 90 per cent of COVID-19 cases are occurring in urban areas, the accompanying socio-economic effects of the pandemic – lockdowns, export bans and quarantines – are spreading far beyond the city limits, restricting food supply chains and purchasing power while labor and input shortages have disrupted food production, processing and distribution. The population and footprints of cities everywhere are growing fast, and when problems emerge, cities are often on the frontlines. The world’s cities occupy just three per cent of the Earth’s land, but account for 60–80 per cent of energy consumption and 75 per cent of carbon emissions. 95 per cent of urban expansion in the next decades will take place in developing world. With the most rapid rates of urban expansion, Asia and Africa are projected to experience 80 per cent of the global cropland loss due to unplanned urban expansion. By 2050, 70 per cent of the world population is predicted to live in urban settlements. Today, half of humanity – 3.5 billion people – lives in cities. ![]()
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