Transportation
With dense cities, income disparities, care for racial issues, and climate change, the time is right to change the current model and establish new priorities. By focusing on the bike, it is possible to rethink the built environment and identify the best decisions for the planet’s future.
Transportation
It is self-evident that HSR increases the convenience of living in outlying suburbs of crowded and expensive cities, making housing more affordable for people working in those cities. As a result, Japan's experience over the 55-year span of HSR linking cities throughout the country is instructive.
Middle East & Africa
Former President of South Africa Jacob Zuma. Originally published in the HIR Fall 2013 Issue. South Africa will celebrate its 20 years of democratic rule next year, following the demise of apartheid in 1994. The ruling African National Congress (ANC), which is also the oldest liberation movement on the continent,
Perspectives
Director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative Michael VanRooyen. Originally published in the HIR Fall 2013 Issue. Humanitarian assistance is aimed at providing rapid, life-saving support in settings of high population vulnerability, such as in times of war, disaster, or displacement. The provision of humanitarian assistance is complicated by severe access
Science & Technology
"This technology will remind us once again that scenarios from science fiction can easily become reality."
Asia
"America may be treaty bound to protect these islands but at what cost and for how long?"
Science & Technology
"Ultimately we must consider how specific technologies might either preserve or threaten human dignity, and thus what sorts of empowerment or regulation will be most appropriate."
Arts & Culture
"Culture has a salient geopolitical relevance in a world that defines itself by much more than diplomatic exchanges and inter-state relations."