urbanization is bad for the planet, right? wrong. at least it doesn’t have to be. dr. guanghua wan of the asian development bank presented research at george washington university that shows positive effects of a growing urban population. with the right policy and regulations, asian cities can grow without affecting the environment. watch this clip of dr. wan’s presentation to learn how asian cities can support sustainable urban growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
urbanization is bad for the planet, right? wrong. at least it doesn’t have to be. dr. guanghua wan of the asian development bank presented research at george washington university that shows positive effects of a growing urban population. with the right policy and regulations, asian cities can grow without affecting the environment. watch this clip…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4889,4900,4899],"tags":[2866,2867,898,2868,513,237,142,2869,2460,232],"storyfest_categories":[],"class_list":["post-13412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-military","category-green-living","category-policy","tag-adb","tag-asia","tag-china","tag-city-planning","tag-flooding","tag-green","tag-gwu","tag-megacities","tag-pisa","tag-urban"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n