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Many people perceive the city and for the individual players. Despite some significant shifts in thinking in recent decades, the main perception still seems to be that environmental issues primarily involving plants, animals and pristine wilderness areas. On the other hand, human settlements, is considered the sole preserve of architects, planners and urbanization. Too often, mythologized as benevolent nature and the city, as the evil, despite the growing trend towards urbanization in the world.
This conference is an opportunity to challenge this view. Town and the natural conditions are not always contradictory notions, but should be integrated into different scales, for a healthy and sustainable settlement is not in sight. As the famous anthropologist Margaret Mead, argued years ago, as rashes are to bees, and for fox dens, the city may be equally natural moments in the development of human society, as long as ecological integrity remains.
The focus of the meeting would be to rethink the basic concepts and apply them to the sustainable development of natural, healthy cities globally, from developing to developed worlds.
The main theme of the conference will be success stories. It is true that a society can learn from their mistakes, and we have done a lot in environmental protection. However, it is also the case that we can get lessons from our successes, and we hope that the Natural City conference in 2006, will help us all move forward and build on these results.
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