The interwoven nature of these challenges and their deeply local ramifications require macro analytical capacity alongside integrated community responses and local, networked action. Whilst many city and national leaders have fought valiantly to control COVID-19, to tackle wildfires, manage water shortages, respond to typhoons, war and so much more, what has become explicit in the opening years of this decade is that no one strategy is comprehensively working. First, increasing zoonotic diseases and pandemics second, more disasters, conflict and extreme climatic events third, the complexity of high-density living and rapid urbanization, fourth and relatedly, exponential demographic growth in some parts of the world, and the migratory trends associated with it and finally, increasing inequality in incomes and employment, exacerbated by the COVID-19 epidemic 1, 2, 3. 2020–2022 brought into sharp relief a number of complexities facing the first fully urban generation.
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