So you have to be prepared.

Civilisation is that I protect your right to have an opinion which is different from mine.

PARIS What does it mean to be civilized ? Obviously, being highly educated, wearing a tie, eating with a fork, or cutting one s nails weekly is not enough.

Urbanization will accelerate with supporting public sector investment.

Uncle Sam schools the newest recruits to the US imperial fold in the art of civilization.

refers to the characteristics, personality traits, and viewpoints associated with cities and urban areas.

This is why urbanization means a huge building boom in emerging economies.

Early urbanization begins with the Ubaid period, around 5300 BC.

Otherwise the degree of urbanization was very low in medieval Finland.

The index of urbanization in 1950 was close to that of the United States, excluding Ilorin.

Very significant rate of urbanisation was observed in the second half of the 20th century.

The urbanization process has significant implications in demographic characteristics of population and family units.

The big opportunity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is actually in urbanizing the suburbs.

In Asia, the rate of urbanization had been less rapid because of agricultural sector development.

There has also been a rapid increase in urbanization in most non Annex I Parties.

We all know that being civilized in this formal way doesn t prevent people from behaving like barbarians.

On the contrary, he sees himself as a deeply civilized man of peace.

Immigration, both from within and outside the country, is regarded as one of the main factors that has contributed to urbanisation in Pakistan.

Migration from other countries, mainly those in the neighbourhood, has further catalysed the process of urbanisation in Pakistani cities.

Brazil has a high level of urbanization 81 out of every 100 Brazilians live in cities.

Historically, the secondary sector dominated the economy, but due to rapid urbanisation and economic development, this sector of the economy is slowly diminishing.

During the reporting period, UN Habitat contributed to a report by the Economic Commission for Africa that has identified rapid urbanization as a key challenge for Africa.

Accommodating a rapidly urbanizing population, and ensuring that incentives are structured to bring about as orderly a process of social change as possible

But they're real examples in urbanization and the change that's occurred in the last number of years, and the heightened sensitivity to the importance of our urban environments as cultural centers.

Everywhere and at all times, being civilized means being able to recognize and accept the humanity of others, despite their different modes of living.

BEIJING Measured by the percentage of people living in its cities, China s urbanization rate currently stands at about 48 , according to official statistics.

Urbanization, air travel, satellite TV, and the Internet have all followed. Every nation has been changed by these things. But Iceland arguably more so, more quickly.

Given that the urbanization ratio is still quite low, at 48 , a relatively high investment in infrastructure may be sustained for a long time.

Urbanization is blamed for a wide variety of modern social ills, ranging from crime and incivility to alienation and anomie.

Over time, urbanization was unavoidable as cities remained the centre of economic growth and attracted people searching for better living conditions.

Several casebooks have been developed, including Lessons Learned in Implementing the Habitat Agenda and Sustainable Urbanization Bridging the Green and Brown Agendas.

Aware of rapid urbanization trends in developing countries and related challenges in shelter provision, eradicating poverty and sustainable human settlements development,

During the last half century, intense urbanization and feminization of the workforce in all Arab countries has propelled women into the public arena on a massive scale.

In his report (A 59 198), the Secretary General had stated that the linkage between sustainable urbanization policies and poverty reduction strategies needed to be clarified and strengthened in many developing countries.

Gradual urbanisation over the following decades led to some rural districts being redefined as urban districts or merging with existing urban districts or boroughs.

Given the high rate of urbanization, the prevention of disasters in urban areas (floods, landslides) as well as improved housing and access to water will contribute to stability.

In 2004, the second State of the World's Cities report on multicultural cities was published, highlighting the cultural dimension of cities at a time of rapid urbanization.

But urbanization faces another obstacle the hukou system of residency permits, which restricts mobility and bars migrants (an estimated 200 million people) from becoming full status urban citizens.

Moreover, the Chinese government, at both the central and local levels, will remain keen to continue infrastructure investments aimed at further urbanization and industrialization.

Nevertheless, the rapid pace of urbanization has strained the capacity of Governments to provide adequate services to urban dwellers and the number of persons living in slums has been rising, amounting to about 900 million today.

We reaffirm the commitment to implement the Habitat Agenda and the Cities without Slums initiative to assist developing countries in coping with rapid urbanization and associated migration within and between countries.

Accommodating a rapidly urbanizing population, and ensuring that incentives are structured to bring about as orderly a process of social change as possible

Bookchin's The Rise of Urbanization and the Decline of Citizenship (1986) is an overview of the historical conflict between city and nation state, which also presents his municipalist program.

For its part, the African Union at its annual meeting held in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in June 2005, formally accepted the Conference and affirmed sustainable urbanization as a policy priority.

The Bureau also took note of the theme Urbanization and development whose consideration might be tied to a commemoration of the fact that the world's population would likely become more than 50 per cent urban in 2007.