How Fragile Are Our Cities?

The Igarapé Institute teamed up with the United Nations University, the World Economic Forum, the World Bank and SecDev, with support from the Canadian government, to explore and visualize the correlates of city fragility. Among the many variables they examined were several from GDELT, as seen in the images below, and the visualizations were shown at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. Read their summary for the World Economic Forum's website for more details.

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