Megacities in the region promise both better quality of life and greater environmental and resource challenges. Development of new technologies and whole of government approaches will be essential to continued growth and prosperity. What are the most interesting new developments? How can clean tech work...
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Back in 1990, Tokyo’s impressive 30-million inhabitants in its metropolitan area constituted the highest population of the world's 10 megacities. Today, if it were a country, the population of the Greater Tokyo Area would rank above Canada. In 2030, the list of megacities is ...
One of the first examples of a megalopolis was the north-eastern coast of the USA from Boston to Washington—the Bos-Wash Megalopolis. Much like megacities, however, there are more of these regions developing in Asia than anywhere else right now, such as the Pearl River Delta in...
求翻译:The fact that the majority of megacities are found in what is generally considered " the developing world" raises some important questions about how megacities come about and how desirable they are.是什么意思?待解决 悬赏分:1 - 离问题结束还有 The fact that the majority of megacities are...
The shiny stuff (political scandals, celebrity nonsense, and more) in the long run, does not matter. We must turn away from the distractions, but it’s hard when those who “design” the distractions are very VERY good at it. The challenge with facing up to the mul...
More people in cities also means that cities keep on growing in size. The UN forecasts there will be more than 40 megacities with more than ten million inhabitants in 2030. Today’s megacities like Tokyo (37 million inhabitants in the metropolitan region), Shanghai (23 million) or New York...
research report showed that 30% of cars on the streets during rush hours are actually those driving around in search of parking areas. A display, in this case, could help ease road congestions. After all it’s a lesson worth learning for the already over-crowded megacities here in China....
Liang Y, Cai WG, Ma MD (2019) Carbon dioxide intensity and income level in the Chinese megacities’ residential building sector: decomposition and decoupling analyses. Sci Total Environ 67(10):315–327 Article CAS Google Scholar Liobikiene G, Juknys R (2016) The role of values, environment...
Why Africa is the Future of Megacities Its story starts when the architect and urban plannerJaime Lernerjoined amovementagainst the introduction of a new grid of wider car-oriented avenues that would have seen the demolition of many historic buildings. The movement succeeded, and Lerner would go ...