As of 2018, there are 33 megacities and by 2030, 43 megacities are projected, mostly in developing countries.
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The world already has 33 megacities - the largest urban hubs - with another 10 megacities expected to take shape by 2030, mostly in developing countries, the UN report said.
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But Bengaluru remains head and shoulders above all other megacities.
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And the Asian megacities are looking glitzier by the day.
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But China's government has long resisted the emergence of true megacities.
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Explore Matt Daniels' interactive world map of populations in megacities here.
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The study said that eastern China and megacities were worst affected.
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Those megacities could claim at least 60% of job growth through 2030.
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The government wants to restrict the growth of megacities such as Beijing.
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These megacities are distributed across five continents and represent different natural habitats.
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Megacities like Jakarta, Mexico City and Sao Paulo are not far off.
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Even the proliferation of skyscrapers in the developing world's megacities encourages air-conditioners.
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C40 is a network of the world's megacities committed to addressing climate change.
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If you look at the world population, three quarters will live in megacities.
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Southeast Asia's megacities like Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok and beyond certainly spring to mind.
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World population In the future, most of us will live in massive megacities.
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In contrast, China alone is home to six megacities, and India claims five.
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Other concepts included a sports car, luxury vehicle and one designed for megacities.
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In a lot of the east Asian megacities, you find crazy underground infrastructure.
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Airbus fought back, arguing that travel between megacities would nonetheless dominate air transport.
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Business leaders flit between megacities aboard Ethiopian Airlines, which flies to 36 African states.
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Megacities with populations of more than 10m are springing up across Africa and Asia.
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The city's dirty air has surpassed notoriously polluted megacities, like Beijing and New Delhi.
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In megacities such as Dhaka, cholera is constantly endemic, and is now striking Yemen.
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Now, that entrepreneurial ferment, except for in a few megacities, isn't happening as rapidly.
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Even megacities that try to force drivers out of their cars often achieve the opposite.
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Strong demand: India's focus on megacities will invoke demand for IoT technology in all sectors.
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But in focusing on two coastal megacities, Amazon may have called that narrative into question.
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Tech heavyweights such as Alibaba and JD.com were already looking outside megacities a few years ago.
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Failing that, the government should at least stop putting arbitrary caps on the populations of megacities.
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Housing has grown costlier, too, especially in the globally connected megacities where the best jobs are.
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We're looking at the growth of the megacities, 103 million or more people, lots of congestion.
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Within the next 15 years, the United Nations projects, there will be more than 93 megacities.
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The enchanting and futuristic opera houses of the country's megacities don't offer Italian masterpieces every night.
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There were some obvious reasons it flopped: lack of star power, confusing narrative about cannibalistic megacities.
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Chinese consumers, particularly those living in busy megacities, shell out 4bn yuan ($600m) on masks every year.
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My research team has calculated just how much a tree matters for many urban areas, particularly megacities.
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Popular conceptions of megacities are drawn from the futuristic and dystopian stories often presented in science fiction.
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The study, published Wednesday, also forecast a dramatic upswing in the number of megacities around the world.
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Both markets have megacities with a diverse population, and there are countless opportunities for startups to address.
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Los Angeles is one of two megacities in the world that have a population of big cats.
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According to the Brookings institution, megacities and 14 pillar cities performed well, with service cities outperforming industrial cities.
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Why it matters: Traffic takes a toll on both economic output and quality of life in Africa's megacities.
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His work directly addresses the problems of rapid urbanization and the sudden advent of megacities in developing countries.
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Prices in a handful of megacities, especially Shenzhen and Shanghai, have soared, while those elsewhere have barely budged.
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Dhaka, one of the world's fastest growing megacities, must reckon with the difficulties of a tropical monsoon climate.
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As it is, human capital is concentrating in a few megacities, held in place by hefty home loans.
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In 1990, there were 10 "megacities" in the world, meaning cities with inhabitants of 10 million or more.
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Now there are 31 such megacities, and the UN projects 10 more will join the list by 2030.
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Size matters: Megacities have an advantage thanks to their well-developed business communities and high-skilled talent pools.
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"In the megacities in China, we learned that traffic is at a standstill there an awful lot," Bangle says.
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Air travel can spread a pandemic worldwide within days, wreaking havoc on the disorganized megacities of the developing world.
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And families being chased off the land they cherish only to find themselves living in squalor in India's megacities.
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Above all, Beijing and other megacities should stop treating settlers from elsewhere in the country as second-class citizens.
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In many global megacities, the problem is more severe: the average commute in Mumbai exceeds a staggering 90 minutes.
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Beijing and Shanghai, the megacities of greatest political and business importance, have exploited this leeway with the most enthusiasm.
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We looked in detail at 10 megacities around the world, including Beijing, Cairo, Mexico City, Los Angeles and London.
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In fact, the United Nations says most of the world's megacities are located in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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Without strong policy action, the death toll will only worsen as megacities mushroom, exposing ever greater numbers of people.
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Recent price gains have been mostly driven by smaller cities which have fewer restrictions on home buyers than megacities.
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Now there are 31 megacities with at least 10 million people, and most of them are in the developing world.
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There are 33 megacities (urban centers with populations of more than 10 million) today; by 2030 there will be 43.
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Of all the dysfunctions that plague the world's megacities, none may be more pernicious than bad (really, really bad) traffic.
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They live outside the country's prosperous megacities, in the cities, towns and hamlets that over a billion Chinese call home.
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Up is designed for a future filled with megacities, which Airbus envisions having a whole new level of traffic congestion issues.
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Putting obstacles in the way of those who wish to seek their fortunes in coastal megacities will needlessly hinder China's development.
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The Big Picture: 518 million people (7% of the global population) now live in megacities of 10 million or more people.
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That might concept might sound cute but trivial in the West, but in Asia's megacities, the option can help with productivity.
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Success to me will be when thriving families can live in vibrant neighborhoods — outside of megacities — that enable longevity and happiness.
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By eviscerating federal funding of science, this budget pays for a world where the only infrastructure is megacities connected by Fury Roads.
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Currently, only 12 percent of Asia's urban population live in megacities, while four percent live in towns of fewer than 300,000 inhabitants.
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Our systematic aerial surveys of 2967 megacities suggest that 2000 percent of the average megacity's urban core is covered by forest canopy.
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Megacities like London, Paris, New York and Tokyo have higher levels of crime, congestion and public-transport problems than are deemed comfortable.
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Out of 31 megacities identified by the U.N. in 2016, only New York and Los Angeles made the cut for U.S. cities.
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KAEC's Al-Rasheed said that, with an ever-expanding Saudi population, the country would need to create new megacities to keep up.
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Some megacities cycle through suburban and exurban forms without ever manifesting anything that looks like a downtown, much less a high street.
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Why this matters: The safety of coastal populations, including growing megacities worldwide, is intricately tied to the fate of Antarctica's ice sheet.
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Asphyxiating air pollution already plagues megacities across Asia; water crises threaten security in already tempestuous parts of Africa and the Middle East.
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The result will be more significant and rapid sea level rise that will threaten the viability of coastal megacities, from Miami to Mumbai.
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AMONG the world's megacities, Delhi, India's capital, has a good claim to several dubious distinctions: foulest air, hottest summer, most precarious water supply.
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These more sanguine observers also note that outrageous price levels for Chinese apartments are mainly restricted to the megacities like Beijing and Shanghai.
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With their long hair and traditional clothing, these members of the Yao minority would seem out of place in one of China's megacities.
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Since opening, Hema has been rapidly expanding and now operates in 73 locations across China's megacities, with the help of a few franchises.
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The persistent dirty air over Delhi is a consequence of its current stage of economic development, similar to other megacities in developing countries.
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In 2009 a sociologist coined the term yizu, or "ant tribe" to refer to struggling graduates from the provinces who swarm to megacities.
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Considering the difficulty of sustaining the country's megacities, it makes sense for China to cozy up to Israel to adapt to the changing landscape.
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The village reflects a broader migration trend that has seen countless Chinese move from rural areas to urban megacities like Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou.
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Some older Hong Kongers such as Tony Lau welcome this date, pointing to the rapid economic development of Chinese megacities like Shenzhen and Shanghai.
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Every day, thousands of airliners crisscross the air corridors over the Atlantic, ferrying tourists and business men between megacities like New York and London.
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More than two-thirds of the new users on Alibaba's Chinese shopping platforms this past year lived outside the country's megacities, the company said.
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Over the next few months, the outbreak spread, even reaching the states that are home to the megacities Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
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"While emission control and regulation is the backbone of prevention, high exposures are, unfortunately, the rule still in many megacities throughout the world," he said.
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Ruined was organized in conjunction with Megacities Asia, an exploration of the meteoric growth of Beijing, Shanghai, Delhi, Mumbai, and Seoul, which closed in July.
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GDP per capita: $20303,000 Population in 1975: 16 million (Rank: 2nd) Of the world's 31 megacities, 6 are in China and 5 are in India.
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Other studies project sea level rise of around 19403 feet, an amount that would engulf megacities from New York and Miami to Manila and Dhaka.
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The park service says Los Angeles is one of two megacities in the world -- along with Mumbai, India -- where big cats live within city limits.
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Intermediary cities are growing almost twice as fast as megacities, according to a 2018 paper posted by the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development.bit.
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And when the countryside market becomes saturated, Pinduoduo will need to more aggressively upgrade its product selection to court the more sophisticated consumers from Chinese megacities.
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Those numbers suggest the biggest markets for autonomy and its benefits may be in the massive megacities of the developing world, such as Beijing and Delhi.
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It's winter, 2018, in Iowa, five months after the last of the nuclear bombs detonated across megacities in northeast Asia, from Seoul to Tokyo to Shanghai.
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Other studies project sea level rise of around 10 feet or more, an amount that would doom megacities from New York to Manila, Shanghai, and Dhaka.
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Most megacities have minimum parking rules, which specify how many parking spaces must be provided whenever a new shop, office or block of flats is built.
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But researchers are concluding that small-scale mining may offer a more attractive path out of poverty than either farming or moving to already overstrained megacities.
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"Many of the world's megacities exceed WHO's guideline levels for air quality by more than five times, representing a major risk to people's health," Neira said.
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The continent is home to more than half of the world's urban population and 170 of the 31 global megacities of 10 million or more people.
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India has five megacities with populations of more than 10 million each, and is forecast to have two more by 2030, according to the United Nations.
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China wants to link a string of megacities into a "Greater Bay Area" to rival San Francisco, New York and Tokyo, the Financial Times' Ben Bland reports.
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That might sound trivial but in the megacities of Asia, it is a factor that can cost you an additional 20 minutes if you get it wrong.
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Featuring Ariel Lambrecht (Yellow), Eduardo Musa (Yellow), Tony Qiu (Didi Chuxing), Hans Tung (GGV) Mobility is a massive challenge for megacities around the world, including Sao Paulo.
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Prices continued to rise despite tougher curbs designed to rein in a near-three-year real estate boom that has spilled over from megacities to the hinterland.
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The company says 70 percent of its users live in cities that are Tier 3 and below, far and remote from megacities Beijing, Shanghai and the like.
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China's southern megacities of Guangzhou and Shenzhen imposed new measures to cool their overheated real estate markets on Tuesday, including higher mortgage downpayments and home purchase restrictions.
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But the main reason the megacities are stuck is that their governments are doing almost nothing to reduce traffic, and quite a lot to make it worse.
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Since its entry into China in 2016, WeWork has extended from four to around 60 locations across the country's megacities like Shanghai, Beijing and, most recently, Shenzhen.
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In recent days governors and nearly 200 mayors — from small towns to megacities — have vowed to collectively reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and adopt clean energy technologies.
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The UN said the growth of megacities was likely to stem from an accelerating shift from rural to urban-living areas around the world, particularly in Asia.
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After hundreds of millions of Indians cast ballots across megacities, mountains and islands, Prime Minister Narendra Modi won the biggest re-election India has witnessed in decades.
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It exemplifies what Jeffrey Johnson, director of Columbia University's China Megacities Lab, calls the "museumification" of China: a building boom so frothy it is running away with itself.
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And this year, she took over as chair of C221, a global network of megacities (generally those with a population over ten million) dedicated to combating climate change.
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Located in Shanghai's eastern Pudong district outside the high-rise city, the prettily landscaped grounds and large lake are a welcome change from the crush of China's megacities.
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I see this argument that, somehow, all a President has to do is convince a few megacities of his agenda and he'll win to be missing the point.
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Away from Nepal, in other water-impoverished megacities, authorities have proved that seemingly intractable shortages can be addressed, or at least somewhat allayed, while reining in private tankers.
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In particular, I've been trying to clarify my thoughts after reading Emily Badger's stimulating piece on how megacities seem to have less and less need for smaller cities.
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"[T]his study shows that influenza epidemics in smaller cities burn hot and fast, while epidemics in big megacities burn at more of a year-round smolder," she said.
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That marks the 241.1th straight month of price increases, despite government measures designed to rein in a real estate boom that has spilled over from megacities to the hinterland.
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While Uber might be useful for "megacities" in which parking and congestion is a problem, other areas will still see car ownership continue, according to one Volvo Cars executive.
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While the cooling trend in megacities may be good news for policymakers in Beijing, the survey showed sharp price rises are now spreading to other parts of the country.
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Even as the government tries to restrain the excesses in its megacities, it does not want to snuff out their rally altogether, for they tend to influence sentiment elsewhere.
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Analysis of shoreline changes was essential to help better planning along densely populated coasts, said the researchers, who noted 15 out of 20 megacities are now in coastal zones.
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Future urban population growth will not be restricted to megacities of 10 million people or more, said Robert Muggah, co-founder of the Brazil-based think tank Igarapé Institute.
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On a small midway, the roar of an animatronic brachiosaurus was briefly overwhelmed by the jets of a Boeing 787 bound for one of the megacities of mainland China.
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By 237, there will be 229 megacities around the world with populations of over 226 million, up from 203 similarly sized urban centers today and just 220 in 22000.
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The new rules instruct all provincial capitals (but not megacities such as Beijing and Shanghai) to make it easier for graduates to apply for local hukou, boosting labour mobility.
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Trees in cities reduce pollution, store carbon and protect people in heatwaves, saving megacities more than $500 million a year in healthcare, energy costs and environmental protection, according to research.
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China's southern megacities of Guangzhou and Shenzhen are the latest centres to impose new measures to cool their overheated real estate markets, including higher mortgage downpayments and home purchase restrictions.
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The number of megacities - which are home to more than 10 million people - has tripled since 1990 to 31, and U.N. Habitat predicts this will rise to 41 by 2030.
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The bustle and hum of megacities like São Paulo or Tokyo might be too much for some people; others might struggle with the pace of life in Cleveland or Frankfurt.
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Even including some of the surrounding area, such as parts of New Jersey, New York barely qualifies for the list of "megacities," those with populations greater than 10 million people.
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Today, that pestilence is racing toward Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo at the rate of more than a mile a day, turning Brazil's coastal megacities into mega-ticking-timebombs.
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"One thing that adds to the complexity in cities is that often these megacities have a different administrative structure than rural districts...," said Nandy, an epidemiologist and public health physician.
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What makes the coronavirus scary enough to cause a worldwide run on face masks and lead countries to lock down whole megacities and ban travelers isn't that it's super deadly.
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And that while Angelenos have the right to gripe about America's worst traffic, the city's 42 percent congestion level looks peachy compared to the megacities of India and southeast Asia.
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Toxic smog shrouded Asian megacities, hundreds died in flooding and landslides, cyclones battered coastlines and bushfires, droughts and deadly heatwaves led to towns and cities almost running out of water.
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In seven phases over 28 days, as many as 28 million people will cast ballots nationwide at a million polling stations, spread across densely populated megacities and far-flung villages.
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The principal exceptions are the provincial-level megacities of Beijing and Shanghai, where motorcycle ownership has fallen but car ownership is far below what would be predicted based on income alone.
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While a 213.6,272-year timeframe sounds extremely long, it is unusually speedy in geologic time, and the resultant sea level rise would drown many coastal megacities long before the year 2100.
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"In world's megacities such as London, efficient public transport is a must to maintain the city's competitiveness and economic growth," Kasparas Adomaitis, cities manager from Euromonitor International, said in an email.
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Why it matters: Greenland's fate will help determine the future viability of coastal megacities around the world, from New York to Shanghai, as sea levels rise in response to added freshwater.
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If the dominant histories are two locations on a map, megacities in the realm of all possible quantum mechanical universes, the question is which path we should take through the terrain.
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India's capital New Delhi and Brazil's Sao Paulo were paired as the world's worst megacities for sexual violence against women in a poll published last month by the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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The piece is titled "When the City Rules" and was inspired by megacities like London — from which Prokofiev draws inspiration by cycling around his local neighborhoods, while listening to its sounds.
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Setting up shop at busy malls in megacities could help with marketing, but it's unlikely to be enough for the company to make inroads in the world's second-largest smartphone market.
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Spend 24 hours in any of China's tier 1 megacities and you'll quickly start to realize that the Chinese interact with technology in fundamentally different ways to people in the West.
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China has moved the same way on tailpipe emissions and is shaping regulations to increase sales of electric cars to combat the poor air quality in many of its congested megacities.
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For many foreigners and Chinese ground down by living in China's polluted, crowded and clogged megacities, the beaches, rivers and hills of tropical Southeast Asia provided a much-needed escape hatch.
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Research by the C40 network of cities revealed that delivering on the ambition of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change will require the world's megacities to peak emissions as soon as 2020.
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China's property market has been heating up, despite tighter curbs designed to rein in a near-three-year real estate boom that has spilled over from the country's megacities to the hinterland.
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The number of megacities with populations of more than 10m has doubled to 29 in the past 20 years, and each year nearly 80m people are moving from rural to urban areas.
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Considering how fast megacities are erected in places like China, the idea that these buildings might sprout in the some of the world's most least-populated places is not so far-fetched.
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China's megacities of Chongqing and Shanghai have been the only two cities to enforce a pilot property ownership tax scheme since 2011, raising taxes on those with multiple homes to penalize speculators.
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While a single metropolis extending from Boston to Washington, D.C., or from San Francisco to San Diego might seem far-fetched, megacities do exist and are only expected to become more common.
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China's massive property market has remained relatively buoyant despite tighter curbs designed to rein in a near-three-year real estate boom that has spread from the country's megacities to the hinterland.
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Costly retrofitting may be the only way to improve sprawling slums in megacities, but medium-sized cities still have the chance to incorporate low-cost housing into their urban design, said Fay.
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X-Story follows a ruthless treasure hunter with a bionic arm as he hunts for ancient technology in a futuristic universe that draws fiercely from the megacities of Blade Runner and Akira.
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"We see poorly planned development in Africa, not just with megacities but smaller settlements ... which often lack proper water and sanitation," said Marianne Comparet, director of the International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases.
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Grab said it plans to work with its new investor "to create a more efficient transport network that will ease traffic congestion in Southeast Asia's megacities" and help its drivers increase their income.
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Banyan hopes that Bangkok's government—and the authorities in the region's other megacities—look beyond the superficial inconveniences caused by street-food vendors, and think harder about their role in the city's fabric.
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However, the results match other observations of airborne microplastics in the megacities of Paris and Dongguan, and raise the possibility that plastic pollution is hitching a ride with the weather, the authors say.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Governments ought to make smaller cities more attractive to their citizens seeking better opportunities, the United Nations said on Friday, as that would reduce demands on overcrowded megacities.
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Art Review For design-minded travelers, the principal calling cards of Mexico City, Lima or São Paulo — Latin America's megacities, each of them larger than New York — have been their delirious modernist structures.
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Failure to do so will exacerbate the difficulties associated with operating in megacities, prolong conflicts therein, and create circumstances where hostile groups can exploit physical and virtual sanctuaries largely unobserved by U.S. forces.
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Researchers said businesses operating in developing-world megacities should do more to build resilience to climate shocks to protect assets and staff, while satisfying investors they are factoring climate risk into their planning.
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The UN forecasts that, by 2030, there will be over 40 "megacities" home to more than 10m inhabitants (up from 31 in 2016), which means more housing and infrastructure will need to be built.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Megacities of the future will boast high-speed rail, superfast broadband, and green energy systems - but experts on Thursday said they were failing to leave space for one thing: girls.
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Hong Kong Dispatch HONG KONG — Squeezed tightly between two megacities with a combined population of 20 million are some of East Asia's most important wetlands, where rare birds sing out amid traditional shrimp ponds.
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But that tradition, too, is dying, replaced by reliable alarm clocks or the rise of megacities, making the door-to-door wake-up call impossible as individual homes make way for high-rise apartments.
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Kadir Van Lohuizen of Noor Images took first in the Environment/Stories category for his story on how waste is managed in six megacities around the world, which was published in The Washington Post.
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Several students talked about the diverse range of social issues they were engaged in through on-campus clubs - from fighting against sexual harassment to improving the lives of migrant workers in megacities like Beijing.
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At six feet, though, around 12 million people in the United States would be displaced, and the world's most vulnerable megacities, like Shanghai, Mumbai, and Ho Chi Minh City, could be wiped off the map.
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The 90 cities in an international network of megacities committed to tackling climate change - called C40 - will need to raise $375 billion by 2020 for low-carbon transport, buildings and other infrastructure, the group says.
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China is the same size as America but has four times as many people; moreover, they are crammed into low-lying coastal megacities in the east of the country, such as those sprinkled across Guangdong.
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FAO's Chief Veterinary Officer Juan Lubroth told Reuters in Bangkok that threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) was magnified in places, like Asia's megacities, where there was high population growth and intense food and agriculture production.
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More than 22.5 billion people travel the world each year, and many who travel to "megacities" with more than 2100 million residents may find themselves in areas with high levels of air pollution, he noted.
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Internationally, where rapid urbanization in megacities around the world presents significant economic and social challenges, 85033G holds the promise of more effective, efficient, and greener deployment of critically needed power, public safety, and transportation infrastructure.
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That would enable megacities such as the capital Beijing to supply rental homes in its suburban areas where most land is collectively-owned by rural villages, without having to expropriate the land first, analysts said.
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Subway and bus services shut down in Brasilia, the nation's capital, while demonstrations blocked roads and snarled traffic in the megacities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro as union activists took to the streets.
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The classifieds giant said in Thursday's earnings call that it added more than 100 million new users in 2018 for 58 Town, its app aimed at the new wave of internet users outside China's megacities.
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While Miss Fresh goes after consumers in China's megacities, the new project lures small-town consumers with a multilevel revenue-sharing scheme: Users get cash rewards when they get other people to use the app.
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To counter violent non-state actors operating in the future in megacities, the U.S. military will have to be able to effectively piece together a comprehensive and actionable intelligence picture, and under enormously challenging circumstances.
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An interesting study by Yale University researchers published in Scientific Data last week examined the various ways that historians have measured the size and density of cities, from ancient civilizations to the megacities of today.
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The megacities of the developing world will need to maintain a minimum supply of power for 24 hours to provide reliable electricity for all; other than fossil fuels, only nuclear can provide this baseload power.
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However, Slavov thinks initiatives should be centered on empowering city-dwellers and on small and medium sized urban areas that will likely be the future of Africa's urban growth -- not the eye-grabbing urban megacities.
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"Many of the world's megacities exceed WHO's guideline levels for air quality by more than 5 times, representing a major risk to people's health," Dr. Maria Neira, a World Health Organization researcher, said in a statement.
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Many studies have shown that if warming goes above this threshold, the more harmful the impacts of climate change will be, from extreme weather events to sea level rise that will overwhelm the world's coastal megacities.
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Just as we should have anticipated that a deadly hemorrhagic disease caused by the Ebola virus would emerge one day from the remote forests and threaten the vast slums of the rapidly growing megacities of Africa.
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Showing how widespread the problem is, India's capital New Delhi and Brazil's Sao Paulo were paired as the world's worst megacities for sexual violence against women in a poll by the Thomson Reuters Foundation on Monday.
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"Many Asian cities, and especially some megacities, have been built in the deltas of major rivers where ports could link the cities to the global economy," a report by the Asian Development Bank in 2012 said.
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Scientists say they discovered the "troubling" reason why a massive iceberg splintered off one of West Antarctica's largest glaciers last year, and why this may not bode well for the future of the world's coastal megacities.
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When we spoke recently, Kahn pointed to the living conditions in megacities like Kolkata, or in the highly polluted, impoverished areas affected by Houston's oil refineries, where he conducted his initial research in the early '18533s.
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However, other experts have warned that while the outbreak in Hubei may peak in the coming weeks, other Chinese megacities may see self-sustaining epidemics that continue to spread the pathogen around the country and worldwide.
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And in those next three decades, many low-lying megacities and islands could start seeing what used to be once-in-a-century extreme sea level events—life-threatening storm surges, for example—every. Single. Year.
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The number of megacities with population of more than 10 million has tripled since 1990, and while navigation apps help, the maps themselves may need to be redesigned as cities continue to grow and transportation networks expand.
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Ford has pursued these aggressively in the US, so it wouldn't be surprising to see the company continue those efforts in China, which is dotted with congested megacities that typically require a wider variety of transportation services.
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Automakers of all sizes have started tripping over themselves in a bid to reinvent their businesses as quickly as possible, preparing for a world where we live in carless megacities interconnected by vehicles that have no drivers.
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The virus, which kills 212 percent to 212 percent of those who are infected, is now circling the megacities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, threatening to become this country's first-blown urban epidemic since 25.
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From water supply disputes between countries along the Mekong River to groundwater threats in India and growing scarcity in megacities such as Jakarta and Manila, water is becoming a bigger point of political contention in the region.
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That teeming area of megacities is home to more than 100 million people and is seen as particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, though cities like Hong Kong are well prepared for even powerful typhoons.
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Today, many of the shrinking cities in northeastern China are full of quiet streets and empty shops, as more and more young people go to the megacities to find work delivering packages or waiting tables at restaurants.
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Analysts and investors have generally been positive about China's first-tier megacities (Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou) and its second-tier giants, especially those in good locations such as Hangzhou in the east and Foshan in the south.
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The Tianjin government's debt burden is the highest among China's provincial-level megacities and provinces, according to S&P Global Ratings, due to a regional economic slowdown as well as curbs on pollution and local government shadow financing.
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And we think this vehicle can be constructed in a way that is as safe as a commercial airliner, which is where it needs to be in order to be applied at scale in megacities across the world.
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A total of 122 countries would see at least 10% of their current population in areas that would be directly submerged, the study found, with 25 coastal megacities seeing half their population submerged, based on current population levels.
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Yet China's planners now seem intent on redirecting migrants from megacities to smaller cities, and this could curb economic growth: As the World Bank points out, labor productivity is much higher in larger cities than in smaller ones.
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Plagued by polluted water, predatory fish and the steady encroachment of one of the world's biggest megacities, the tiny amphibian steeped in mythological lore has all but disappeared from its home in the muddy canals of southern Mexico City.
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Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam are three markets where Grab offers motorcycles on-demand as both passenger rides — traffic in Southeast Asia's megacities is something to behold — as well as fleet-based food or grocery deliveries or services on demand.
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Countering violent non-state actors will almost assuredly force the U.S. military to engage in operations in or on the edge of densely populated "megacities," urban areas that seep into one another and have more than 10 million inhabitants.
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Asians are also the most vulnerable to climate catastrophe, with melting Tibetan glaciers, less predictable rains upon which its farmers depend, and fiercer storms and rising sea levels threatening huge, sinking megacities such as Jakarta, Manila, Mumbai and Shanghai.
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Wong, who was born in Hong Kong, educated in Canada and is now based in Shanghai, said Starbucks might break into 10-15 new urban markets in China every year, while continuing its penetration in megacities where it has taken hold.
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Fireworks lit up the night sky in Brazil's megacities of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro after the opposition comfortably surpassed the two-thirds majority needed to send Rousseff for trial in the Senate on charges of manipulating budget accounts.
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But it is getting harder for people from the countryside to settle in megacities such as Beijing and Shanghai, owing to measures such as the demolition of ramshackle housing where many of them live and stricter qualifications for local hukou.
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"Cities are starting to encroach past their boundaries on policies at a national level," said Seth Schultz, director of research at the New York-based C40 climate group that includes most of the world's megacities, from Tokyo to Los Angeles.
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Watch More From VICE: Stopping HIV: The Truvada Revolution "This study may serve as a model of mental and physical comorbidity patterns that might be seen in other megacities within Latin America or other rapidly developing nations," the researchers wrote.
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The data marks the 25rd straight month of price increases, Reuters calculation showed, a log trend that's remained intact despite curbs designed to rein in a near-three year real estate boom that has spread from megacities to the hinterland.
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These companies and many others see climate change as increasingly threatening to their bottom line due to extreme weather events like heat waves and droughts, and sea level rise that imperils coastal megacities from New York to Miami to Dhaka.
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Its capital city, Lagos — one of the world's megacities, with a population estimated at 14 million to 21 million — will most likely experience a sea-level rise of around 35 inches in the next few decades if current warming trends continue.
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Chinese megacities like Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen are capturing the world's attention with their glittering skylines, Fortune 500 firms and outsized wealth, but the country also has hundreds of shrinking, forgotten cities that are beginning to resemble America's Rust Belt.
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That marks the fastest gain since September 2016, and the 40th straight month of price increases, Reuters calculations show, despite tougher curbs designed to rein in a near-three-year real estate boom that has spilled over from megacities to the hinterland.
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Yet, with the global population count expected to surpass 8 billion by 2025, megacities such as Tokyo, London, and New York will be increasingly relied upon to not only house growing numbers of people, but also to scale up in a way that's sustainable.
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Because of the sheer size of megacities and the challenges associated with their governance, some of these urban redoubts will likely be characterized by areas of lawlessness and sizable "no-go zones," making them ripe targets for violent non-state actor recruitment and funding activities.
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Elderly populations in Chinese megacities have soared — for example, in Shanghai nearly 30 percent of the 14 million residents are older than 60, an increase of over 5 percent from a year ago — straining the country's rudimentary system for caring for the urban elderly.
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House prices in China – where a near-three-year real estate boom has spilled over from megacities to the hinterland - will rise 210 percent this year and 27 percent in the first half of 26, according to the Reuters poll of 16 property analysts and economists.
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East Asia's urban areas include eight "megacities" with populations of over 10 million; 123 large cities of between 1 million and 10 million people; and 738 medium and small cities with 100,000 to 1 million people, shows the report, which analysed satellite imagery and population models to chart urbanisation.
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Among so-called world megacities of 10 million or more people, Kinshasa is expected to record the second-highest annual growth rate between 2014 and 2030 at 303 percent, according to a U.N. report, and residents say lack of government social provision is pushing many families toward financial ruin.
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Uber returned to Taiwan in partnership with local taxi operators [Image via: SAM YEH/AFP/Getty Images] Uber has also run into challenges with its adoption of motorbike taxis, a popular mode of transport for quickly getting from A to B in the congested streets of Southeast Asia's megacities.
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Like other megacities of the developing world, Dhaka is both a boomtown and a necropolis, with a thriving real-estate market, a growing middle class and a lively cultural and intellectual life that is offset by rampant misery: poverty, pollution, disease, political corruption, extremist violence and terror attacks.
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Although this is progress, it is nowhere near close to enough and will lock us into an unsustainable growth path, with global warming of potentially more than 3° C, severely disrupting the lives and livelihoods of billions, from residents of coastal Asian megacities to farming communities in America.
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What's fascinating about living on the cusp of China is the exciting but slightly frustrating cultural pilgrimages I've embarked on of late: visiting the extravagant and sometimes half-empty opera houses that have sprung up in the past few years in such megacities as Chongqing, Guangzhou and Zhuhai.
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These plants require clustered high demand and extensive transmission capacity; this is perhaps fine for megacities, but much of the demand in the developing world is dispersed and more efficiently served by distributed power sources such as wind and solar that can be delivered in stages as demand increases.
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The viability of coastal megacities from Miami to Manila to Dhaka are intertwined with the fate of the vast West Antarctic Ice Sheet, and new, unnerving evidence shows that the ice loss from that ice sheet may raise global sea levels by twice the rate previously estimated for this century.
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Indeed, one of the defining dynamics of the current face-off is that both the authorities and protesters know events have played out in Hong Kong hugely differently from how similar protests might have been handled in mainland China, even in the emerging high-tech megacities such as Shanghai and Shenzen.
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The report also says the planet will also be home to 43 megacities with over 10 million inhabitants by 2030 — with traffic jams, air pollution, and faulty infrastructure to navigate, trying to get about quickly in a giant metropolis could easily become a nightmare if transport isn&apost maintained and modernized.
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"Those plastic materials enabled transport that likely didn't happen historically" The widespread use of plastics, buildup of coastal megacities, plus the potential for climate change-related shifts to oceanic storms such as typhoons and floods means that there will be more opportunities in the future for long-term transoceanic dispersal events.
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The character first appeared in the long-running British comics anthology 2000 AD. Judge Dredd is a violent, sometimes darkly funny series, set in a dystopian future where people live in overcrowded megacities, and police officers known as Judges are empowered to harshly sentence and even execute the criminals they track down.
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As Bengaluru, and several other Indian megacities with aging or inadequate infrastructure, struggle to tackle issues such as air pollution, congestion and water shortages, builders are looking to woo millennials with homes in upmarket gated-communities that offer open green spaces, drinkable tap water and amenities that range from smart-home connectivity to oxygen generators.
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"The lack of awareness and indifference only partly explains the absence of recycling habits [in Singapore] ... In most cases people do not recycle simply because they are not required to do so," said Tong Yen Wah, co-director of the Energy and Environmental Sustainability Solutions for Megacities program at the NUS Environmental Research Institute.
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James Alexander, director of the finance programme at the C40 network of megacities committed to tackling climate change, said its 91 cities would by 2025 have used up their share of the "carbon budget" still available to hold global temperature rise to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius if they don't reduce emissions more rapidly.
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The Gwangju Biennale, Asia's most important such exhibition, began in 1995 in South Korea, and was soon followed by large-scale shows in Shanghai, Taipei, Fukuoka, Yokohama, Singapore, Jakarta, and a half dozen other Asian megacities — all of which introduced Asian audiences to foreign art and pushed their own region's figures to the international forefront.
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An ongoing example of how violent non-state actors might operate in megacities can be seen in Islamic State-controlled territory in Iraq and Syria, where the terror group maintains disparate and lucrative income sources, including bakeries, oil refineries, and utilities and simultaneously recruits new members not only from within areas they control, but also from throughout the world.
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Even if the world is able to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels - a goal set by governments in Paris in 2015 - by 2050, around 350 million people in megacities such as Lagos in Nigeria and Shanghai in China could still be exposed to deadly heat each year, according to a recent study by British researchers.
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There is an intriguing flip side to the idea that urban evolution research can be used to rescue species that lack the capacity to flourish in megacities: If we can identify which animals are genetically primed to adapt well to living amid glass and steel, we might be able to use that knowledge to engineer a more hospitable world for ourselves.
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