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height: auto; max-width: 100%;"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="mobile-hidden" height="5" align="center" valign="top" style="height: 5px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <img alt="" width="1" height="5" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;"> </td> <td class="mobile-hidden" width="5" height="5" align="center" valign="top" style="height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <img alt="" width="5" height="1" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;"> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div> <div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div> <div> <span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">For billions of Asians, &#x201c;the city&#x201d; means jobs, new wealth, and opportunity. According to the UN, 2007 marked the year when more people lived&#xa0;</span><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: italic;">in</span><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">&#xa0;cities, then&#xa0;</span><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: italic;">out</span><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">&#xa0;of them. By 2025,&#xa0;</span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/messaging/thread/6673199341546676224/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(54, 97, 189); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline;">writes</a><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">&#xa0;this week&#x2019;s guest,&#xa0;</span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-moss-38b508134/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(54, 97, 189); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline;">Daniel Moss</a><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">, Asia will be home to 20 of the world&#x2019;s 37 mega-cities &#x2013; each sheltering populations of 10 million or more.&#xa0;</span> </div> <div><br></div> <div><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Unfortunately, the dream of urban high life hasn&#x2019;t panned out for many - one in three to be exact. By some estimates, over a billion urban-dwelling Asians live in slums and abject poverty. The only reason they remain is because rural options are even worse. That fact alone should be enough to point the finger at governments. In this region, cities have received the lion&#x2019;s share of resource and investment. It&#x2019;s where you can find the best infrastructure, the best wireless coverage, the most jobs, and if you can afford it, the best housing. Rural communities, on the other hand, have been left to their own devices. For many, even basic electricity and indoor plumbing remains a distant dream.&#xa0;</span></div> </div></div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="min-width: 100%;"> <tbody> <tr> <td class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" width="100%" align="" valign="top"> <div class="gl-contains-image"> <table class="editor-image editor-image editor-image-vspace-on" style="min-width: 100%;" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="center" valign="top" style="padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px;"> <div class="publish-container"> <a href="https://advisor.visualcapitalist.com/esg-investing-outperformance-covid-19-selloff/"> <img alt="" class="" style="display: block; height: auto !important; max-width: 100% !important;" width="579" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/41ca3c44701/96e42d0f-116b-4a38-a501-eb3874766325.png"> </a> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="min-width: 100%;"> <tbody> <tr> <td class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" width="100%" align="" valign="top"> <div class="gl-contains-text"> <table width="100%" style="min-width: 100%;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="editor-text editor-text " align="left" valign="top" style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: #6F6E6E; text-align: left; display: block; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px;"> <div></div> <div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div> <div><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Spreading the Wealth </span></div> <div><br></div> <div><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Some attempts &#x2013; albeit few &#x2013; have been made by governments to right this wrong. Although, if truth be told, investment in outlying communities probably has more to do with political expediency than economic altruism.&#xa0;</span></div> <div><br></div> <div><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">In China, for instance, third tier cities in the country&#x2019;s central and western provinces have looked on for decades while coastal seaboard communities received grants and foreign investment that ushered in untold wealth and prosperity. In recent years, remote districts have received more attention, but not near enough. Resentment persists.</span></div> <div><br></div> <div> <span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">A more radical experiment was carried out by Myanmar. It&#x2019;s military junta in 1995 decided to move the capital entirely, relocating it to a place called&#xa0;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naypyidaw" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline;">Naypyidaw</a><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">&#xa0;(</span><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: italic;">pncd: Knee-piya-dou</span><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">), 320 kilometers to the north of the traditional center of Yangon. No official reason was ever given, but the result was dismal. It&#x2019;s been called everything from a vanity project to a white elephant. And it proves the point that re-shaping a city &#x2013; no matter how congested or chaotic &#x2013; is often a better choice than building one from scratch.</span> </div> <div><br></div> <div><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">The bigger question is what will Covid-19 and our current economic crises do to influence changes to our cities? As in the Singapore example, will urban planners go back to the drawing board and design urban landscapes that put less emphasis on the proverbial &#x201c;downtown&#x201d; and more emphasis on sub-dividing; creating stand-alone neighborhoods or hamlets that draw communities closer together?&#xa0;</span></div> <div><br></div> <div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;">To some degree, this already exists. In Singapore there&#x2019;s a Little India and a Chinatown; common features of many big cities in all parts of the world. There are club districts and eating districts, public parks and shopping malls. The bigger the city, the greater the variety. Move to the metropolis from the countryside, find a good job, build a life. If you can tolerate the expense and congestion, then it does beg the question: Why leave?&#xa0;</span></div> </div></div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="min-width: 100%;"> <tbody> <tr> <td class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" width="100%" align="" valign="top"> <div class="gl-contains-image"> <table class="editor-image editor-image editor-image-vspace-on" style="min-width: 100%;" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="center" valign="top" style="padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px;"> <div class="publish-container"> <img alt="" class="" style="display: block; height: auto !important; max-width: 100% !important;" width="584" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/41ca3c44701/c22c2f3d-6edf-44ec-9fd5-085b16411dad.png"> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="min-width: 100%;"> <tbody> <tr> <td class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" width="100%" align="" valign="top"> <div class="gl-contains-text"> <table width="100%" style="min-width: 100%;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="editor-text editor-text " align="left" valign="top" style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: #6F6E6E; text-align: left; display: block; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px;"> <div></div> <div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div> <div><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">The Pandemic Ripple Effect </span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">&#xfeff;</span></div> <div> <span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">It&#x2019;s possible that Covid-19 may have thrown a spanner in the works of urbanization&#x2019;s growth trajectory. It&#x2019;s like the proverbial stone tossed in a lake.&#xa0;</span><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: italic;">Covid causes ripples</span><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">. Health and safety concerns take center stage. Already, major multinationals are contemplating and activating plans that will significantly shift the nature of work from the office to the home. Distributed workplaces aided by high-bandwidth and new communications tools will make the choice easy for some, but not for all.&#xa0;</span> </div> <div><br></div> <div><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Now for those ripples. Part of the joy of city living is access to food, beverage, and shopping choices. Retail has taken a drubbing. Covid has forced many big brand retailer into bankruptcy. At the same time, thousands of restaurants and bars everywhere have closed and may never re-open. E-Commerce received a big boost. And for many the joys and convenience of online shopping may forever displace the need or interest of visiting a store.&#xa0;</span></div> <div><br></div> <div><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Lastly, what does the future hold for arts and entertainment? In most places, large gatherings, concerts, and public events are still on ice with no immediate plans to re-open. The risk of throwing too many people together at this point is to flirt with a Covid comeback. How will these changes re-cast the urban landscape? Does it mean that city-dwelling becomes less enticing than it once was?</span></div> <div><br></div> <div><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">All thorny questions no doubt, and still the poor live in slums and rural infrastructure projects flounder. Covid grants us time for a fundamental re-think. Maybe now is the time to contemplate a new model where satellite cities become new economic epicenters, giving rural communities proximity to some &#x2013; if not all &#x2013; of the advantages enjoyed by their mega-city dwelling brethren. 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First, fair warning: This week&#x2019;s episode is less than cheery. It&#x2019;s a cautionary note for&#xa0;what may lay in store for the world&#x2019;s poor and under-resourced.</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">While relatively wealthy nations reel from the sudden onset of Covid-19 and all attempts to contain the outbreak, billions of others &#x2013; 52% of the world population in fact &#x2013; resides in rural enclaves awaiting a pandemic that could kill in droves. To understand what&#x2019;s at stake, we need to look at the numbers. From Southeast Asia, to Africa, and many parts of South America, healthcare infrastructure, including the most basic primary care services are woefully in short supply. According to the World Bank, average per capita healthcare spend for the poorest 30 countries is just $33. Quality care is a dream. Hospitals are a luxury. 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In 1962, legendary author Aldous Huxley, wrote and published the book&#xa0;</span><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Island, a</span><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">s a utopian companion to his better known and more&#xa0;dystopian novel,&#xa0;</span><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Brave New World</span><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">. Inspired by time spent in Bali, Huxley described a people living in harmony with nature. 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