{"id":206,"date":"2018-11-27T13:55:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T16:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carlosmagarinos.com\/?p=206"},"modified":"2019-01-02T11:55:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T14:55:20","slug":"las-ciudades-del-futuro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carlosmagarinos.com\/en\/las-ciudades-del-futuro\/","title":{"rendered":"Cities of the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">An interesting angle to explore how to improve international cooperation &#8211; which has received less attention than it deserves &#8211; is the accelerated process of urbanization taking place around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Such process stimulates a special interest in the role that cities can and should play to improve globalization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The urban centres could function (as they do in some cases) as mechanisms for setting global parameters and best practices to strengthen global governance.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">At the local level there is a huge power to build consensus. What would happen, then, if we thought globalization from the cities and not only from national states?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Thinking about the global economy also from the cities could be a decisive structural change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Just consider that the process of globalization needs to be strengthened, it needs to generate defences against populism, which has a very important component of nationalism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Cities are key to generate an alternative, to explore the development of a global citizen consciousness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Rethinking cities as a platform for access to the global economy, without losing ownership, identity and national linkages, would open a door to integration from the closest platform for citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Cities would allow us to bridge the debate and to ease the potential tension existing between national sovereignty and global governance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Seen in this new light, localism could make global processes take on another dimension.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting angle to explore how to improve international cooperation &#8211; which has received less attention than it deserves &#8211; is the accelerated process of urbanization taking place around the world. Such process stimulates a special interest in the role that cities can and should play to improve globalization. The urban centres could function (as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ciudadania-global-e-instituciones","category-topics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlosmagarinos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlosmagarinos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlosmagarinos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlosmagarinos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlosmagarinos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carlosmagarinos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"https:\/\/carlosmagarinos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlosmagarinos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlosmagarinos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlosmagarinos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlosmagarinos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}