{"id":14382,"date":"2013-01-22T15:59:10","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T20:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/?page_id=14382"},"modified":"2015-01-06T12:51:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T17:51:58","slug":"the-urban-century","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/research\/the-urban-century\/","title":{"rendered":"The Urban Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardee\/files\/2013\/01\/Urban-Century-Icon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14383\" title=\"Urban Century Icon\" alt=\"Urban Century Icon\" src=\"\/pardee\/files\/2013\/01\/Urban-Century-Icon.jpg\" height=\"267\" width=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2013\/01\/Urban-Century-Icon.jpg 635w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2013\/01\/Urban-Century-Icon-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2013\/01\/Urban-Century-Icon-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the middle of the 21st century, more than six billion people \u2013 nearly two-thirds of the estimated global population \u2013 will live in cities around the globe. Developing countries already are experiencing high rates of urban migration from rural areas, and the majority of the world\u2019s \u201cmega-cities\u201d, those with populations of 10 million or more, will be in the global South.<\/p>\n<p>The Urban Century initiative brings together scholars, policymakers, and practitioners to look at innovative approaches and successful models that may help alleviate some of the pressures that necessarily accompany rapid expansion of population and land area covered by cities.\u00a0 From transportation systems and other infrastructure development to food security and adequate housing and poverty alleviation, burgeoning metropolitan areas face local challenges that have implications for international policies and programs in an increasingly globalized world.<\/p>\n<h2>Events<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/urbanasia\">Pardee Center Conference: The Future is Now: Urban Asia in the 21st Century<\/a>, October 8, 2014<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/2014\/03\/07\/pardee-center-to-host-event-on-the-latin-american-urban-experience\/\">Pardee Center Mini-Conference:&#8221;The Latin American Urban Experience: Crisis, Creativity, and Renewal&#8221;<\/a>, April 9, 2014<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/2012\/12\/14\/urban-century-2\/\">Pardee House Seminar: The Urban Century,<\/a> December 13, 2012<\/p>\n<h2>Multimedia<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/the-urban-century-seminar\/\">Pardee House Seminar: The Urban Century (Video),<\/a>\u00a0December 13, 2012<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/multimedia-library\/the-urban-century\/\">Pardee Podcast: The Urban Century\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/2013\/05\/14\/geoffrey-west-wbur\/\"><br \/>\nWBUR Podcast:\u00a0&#8220;Growth, Innovation, and the Accelerating Pace of Life from Cells to Cities: Are They Sustainable?&#8221;\u00a0Geoffrey West,<\/a>\u00a0May 12, 2013<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/geoffrey-west\/\">Video: Pardee\u00a0Distinguished Lecture: &#8220;Growth, Innovation, and the Accelerating Pace of Life from Cells to Cities: Are They Sustainable?&#8221;\u00a0Geoffrey West<\/a>, April 4, 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the middle of the 21st century, more than six billion people \u2013 nearly two-thirds of the estimated global population \u2013 will live in cities around the globe. Developing countries already are experiencing high rates of urban migration from rural areas, and the majority of the world\u2019s \u201cmega-cities\u201d, those with populations of 10 million or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5790,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":30,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5790"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14382"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21530,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14382\/revisions\/21530"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}