while the city is living a moment of unprecedented prosperity and success, the challenges ahead are plentiful, and cannot be ignored. social changes are no longer slow and gradual, and a growing number of workers is taking to the streets and demanding the government to re-think its attitude and priorities.

in order to ensure the long term sustainability of the improved public safety conditions, appropriate social policies need to be implemented, especially with the view to withstand the next economic downturns. climate changes are threatening coastal cities everywhere in the world, and in a town where entire communities live on the side of precarious hills, the urgancy to address this challenge is two-fold.