Global Trends 2030

Urbanization Dynamics and Challenges

Drew Erdmann Moderated – Urbanization Dynamics and Challenges

• Urbanization and its Challenges: Introduction to the Week of July 15-21 discussion
• Urban World: Cities and the Rise of the Consuming Class
• Mapping the World’s Shifting Economic Center of Gravity Toward Asia
• Urbanization and the Global Climate Dilemma
• Urbanization and American National Security
• The City as a System: Future Conflict and Urban Resilience
• Urbanization’s National Security Implications
• Urbanization, Security and Resiliency
• Military Operations as Urban Planning
• Fighting in the New World: What Urbanization Means for Military Planners
• Urbanization’s National Security Implications – Part 2
• Urban Growth, Inequality, and Telecommuting
• Urbanization as Opportunity
• Citizens of Cities Not Nations – Implications of an Urban World for Government
• Urbanization’s Implications for Governance
• Cities and the Next Era of Latin American Progress
• Urbanization and the World in 2030: Concluding Reflections on the NIC Blog for the Week of July 15-21