Edx Cities and the Challenge of Sustainable development Urbanization and decentralization

I agree with the idea that decentralization of population should be promoted simultaneously with urbanization. It is imperative in the case of my country Japan, where impacts of global warming have stated to bite and disasters like typhoons and floods have devastated many rural areas over the past two years. Since disasters tend to hit the same areas and climate change is likely to make them more severe, and since reconstruction of disaster-stricken areas takes time due to huge national government debts, what follows would be influx of population to urban areas, mainly to Tokyo, which already has about one-tenth of the total population. Meanwhile, great earthquakes right under Tokyo and in the Nankai region, another highly concentrated area, are predicted to occur at the rate of 70 % in 30 years. Improving infrastructures of middle-sized regional cities could mitigate the ensuing problems.