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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Save our cities

Appointed by the AMICOR Maria Ines Reinert Azambuja

Nature
 
467 ,
 
883–884
 
(21 October 2010)
 
doi:10.1038/467883b

Published online
 
Scientists researching problems such as water management should focus more on urban areas.

Scientists are city people. More than one-tenth of the workforce in the Washington DC metropolitan area are scientists and engineers. Beijing has more than 160,000 professionals in research and development. Worldwide, resources such as universities and researchers are concentrated in urban areas. So why do so many scientists ignore the needs of our cities? It is time to encourage scientists and universities to pay more attention to urban areas, and Nature this week includes a package of articles about researchers and cities (see page 899)/.../.

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