Comments on: Cities at a Turning Point

By: nackte frauen

nackte frauen — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:01:34 +0000

If people delay to do everything until you’re positive it’s right, you will probably never do much of anything

By: Keith Teakell

Keith Teakell — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:21:55 +0000

Great post! keep on updating us, you are doing splendid job!

By: halensmith01

halensmith01 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:30:42 +0000

Its quite true that cities are at a cruial turning point. Ecofriendly designs can definitely help humans to sustain a happy life for ever on the earth.Cities in a turning point within the context of climate change must also consider cities in the developing world. Most of capital cities, and intermediate cities have triple their population in the last 20 years.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:05:45 +0000

I appreciate that numerous people don’t judge that education expenses belongs there, but to me it’s very positive that $100 billion can shore up education during a downturn that would otherwise have overwhelmed America’s schools. I also veer into the research on what works and doesn’t work in schooling. What strikes me is the facts that the instructor outweighs all — you’re much better off with a skillful teacher in a gigantic class in a flawed school than with a bad teacher in a tiny class in an first-rate school. Yet, we consistently reserve the greatest teachers for the advantaged students in suburban schools whose parents are already investing funds, time and liveliness into their children. The underprivileged kids in inner metropolitan districts who are the neediest get the most horrible teachers.

By: Diego Molano

Diego Molano — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:02:19 +0000

Cities in a turning point within the context of climate change must also consider cities in the developing world. Most of capital cities, and intermediate cities have triple their population in the last 20 years. The majority of this population located in marginalized areas, in river basins or affected by floods. The challenges imposed by climate change not also has to consider redesign of cities or a new mindset but also has to be consider as an opportunity to overcome past problems in the development of our cities in the developing world.

In the city preparedness for climate change, actiosn such as ressetlement of marginalized communities in risk areas and creating opportunities for those thousands of internal displaced pupulation affected by violence are extremely important to address.

By: Dr J G Ray

Dr J G Ray — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:46:21 +0000

Its quite true that cities are at a cruial turning point. Ecofriendly designs can definitely help humans to sustain a happy life for ever on the earth.

However, if humans do not accept the limit to comforts and materialistic pleasures for the sustenance of resources which are essential for human life, no designs would be beneficial. Without geting convinced of ‘real happiness’ humans cannot think of limiting the conventional comforts and materialistic pleasures. Materialistic thinking won’t provide this conviction. Mahatma Gandhi rightly noticed a 100 years ago that the ‘Earth has everything to meet everybody’s need, but not have enough resources to meet anybody’s greed’. But to distinguish between need and greed, one requires spiritual development.

If we believe in utter materialism, why should we worry about future – ‘Eat drink and be merry – why we fret about the unborn tomorrow?’

Ecolgy is a moral science, that teaches us to change our relationships not only between ourselves (as is taught in all religions) but also with every animate and inanimate things as is fixed in natures set up (learning the truth of that relationship is really what is called Science). Only if humans accept Ecology as the ultimate of religion and science, designs and technologies will lead us to sustainability.

Therefore, in the period of ecological crises, science shall inspire humans to avoid conflicts of all kinds at all levels of human social existence and to build up more of faith among the socities; because ‘erosion of faith’is a very serious social ecological issue, which is the basis of all other erosions and pollutions.

Let science teaches humans to start working towards a better global social order along with efforts to control atmospheric carbon increase and other sorts of environmental degradations!

Let us first or parallely think of developing new mental designs to view nature and society in a different way; and better social designs towards a truly happy social life before we begin to devlop new designs for our citeis. Otherwise, no city designs shall lead us to the ultimate of sustainability on the green Planet!