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Symposium: “Revitalizing Rural Environments”

REVITALIZING RURAL ENVIRONMENTS SYMPOSIUM: REGIONAL TO GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
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Massive migration from rural lands to urban centers is destabilizing small villages and towns all over the world. At a time when information technology has the potential to distribute knowledge and resources in more egalitarian ways than ever before, it is ironic that today’s unsustainable urban congestion often recalls the problems of the Industrial Revolution more than two centuries ago: pollution, lack of medical care, squatter housing, overburdened infrastructure, tensions between demographic groups, to name a few.

These events are open to the public.

Thursday, March 29

12:00–1:00 p.m. | Spark G45» More …