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  • This house supports the financialization of metropolitans in South-East Asian countries (e.g. Kuala Lumpur, HCMC, Bangkok)

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    The financialization of a city typically involves financial institutions—e.g. banks, investment firms, and real estate funds— expanding into key urban districts. This manifests in buying real estate in these districts for office buildings, listing in the municipality, expanding hiring and in many cases increasing investment into assets in the city.

    St Andrews pre-EUDC 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-08-13

  • This parliament believes that Mamdani's victory has done more harm than good for the Democratic Party.

    Infoslide

    In the 2025 New York City mayoral election Democratic primary, Zohran Mamdani achieved a surprising victory against his fellow Democratic candidate Andrew Cuomo. Despite facing multiple sexual harassment allegations, Cuomo participated in the election. Mamdani gained popularity primarily based on his democratic socialist policies such as implementing universal child care, city-run grocery stores, and rent freezes for rent-stabilized tenants. However, his policy positions also became subjects of controversy, with Trump threatening to have him arrested if he fails to cooperate with federal immigration agencies.

    BUFTDC National IC 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-08-05

  • This house opposes the Singapore Developmental framework

    Infoslide

    The Singapore developmental framework is the extensive focus of global research on the factors and conditions prerequisite to Singapore's perceived economic, socio-political, and technological success. It is heavily used as a point of comparison for developmental research done for third-world countries, e.g., in relation to traffic management, urban planning, public transportation, and etc.

    Bicol Debate Union Rookies Asian Parliamentary 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-08-02

  • This house believes that India should adopt policies similar to China that encourage graduates and migrant workers to return to their hometowns

    Infoslide

    In China, the government has introduced rural revitalization programs that offer subsidies, tax breaks, and training to encourage university graduates and former migrant workers to return to rural areas for work or entrepreneurship. India faces similar challenges, including mass rural-to-urban migration, overcrowded cities, and underdeveloped rural regions. Many Indian graduates leave their hometowns for urban job opportunities.

    Hart House Women and Gender Minorities Debating Tournament 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-08-02

  • This house believes that London should secede from the UK

    Infoslide

    The year is 2029. The Reform Party has won a majority in the House of Commons, with the vast majority of seats outside London (see map: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OvaTDnTovIjKHdZeh4K0pcgjhPqlnHxp/view?usp=sharing, source: Electoral Calculus).

    Imperial Intervarsity 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-07-26

  • This house believes that Mamdani's victory has done more harm than good to the Democratic Party.

    Infoslide

    In the 2025 Democratic primary for the New York City mayoral election, Zohran Mamdani achieved a surprise victory over fellow Democrat candidate Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo had run for the election despite multiple previous allegations of sexual harrassment. Mamdani gained popularity largely off the basis of his democratically socialist policies, such as the implementation of universal childcare, city-run grocery stores, and freezing rent for rent-stabilised tenants. However, his policy stances have also been mired in controversy, with Trump threatening to arrest him should he fail to cooperate with federal immigration agencies.

    Singapore Polytechnic Debate Open 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-07-25

  • In cities with prominent concentrations of homeless populations (e.g. the Tenderloin in San Fransisco, the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver or O’Connell Street and surrounding areas in Dublin), This house would pursue policies to disperse homeless populations across the city (e.g. spreading-out homeless shelters, providing financial incentives for resettlement, ordering law enforcement to remove inhabitants)

    Warwick Pre-EUDC 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-07-12

  • That we should incentivise the construction of build-to-rent housing

    Infoslide

    Build-to-Rent (BTR) refers to residential developments that are built primarily to be rented out, rather than sold to individual buyers. Typically, BTR properties are owned and managed by a single institutional landlord, such as a property fund, superannuation fund, or real estate investment trust.

    South China Australasian Intervarsity Debate Championships 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-07-06

  • We support the implementation of the "15-minute city model" for future urban planning projects.

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    The "15-minute city" is an urban design model focused on developing self-sufficient cities where all essential needs of residents, such as work, education, shopping, healthcare, and entertainment, can be accessed within a 15-minute walk or bike ride from home. It emphasizes multifunctional development, local services, and the sustainability of urban growth. This model was introduced in 2016 by urban planner Carlos Moreno and quickly gained recognition as a solution to alleviate traffic congestion, environmental pollution, social isolation, and the regional specialization of social services. However, there is considerable debate that the model could lead to urban overpopulation, social inequality, and the formation of "local bubbles"—areas where residents are confined to familiar living spaces, diminishing interaction, cultural exchange, and opportunities to access urban resources on a broader scale.

    Zoo Pre-NSDC Gathering Cup 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-07-05

  • This house prefers a world where large US cities were governed in unaffiliated multi-party political systems

    Infoslide

    Most large American cities in the status quo have partisan municipal elections, with party primaries followed by a general election between a Republican and Democrat. Montreal and Vancouver are unique in North America for having political parties that only exist on the municipal level, without national equivalents.

    Waterloo IV 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-06-21

  • TH, as an intelligent rat in NYC, would choose to run for mayor

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    You are an intelligent rat living in NYC with the ability to think, strategize and rally other rats. There is an election for mayor soon and the incumbent mayor is pushing a new policy to exterminate all rats in NYC.

    Ayrshire Schools Debate Competition 2025 · Junior Finals · 2025-06-19