Sentences with word «megacity»

With urban populations exploding in megacities like Tokyo, Shanghai, and Delhi to well over 20 million people — it is important to understand how green spaces contribute to urban sustainability.

It has been three years since BMW announced its new i lineup, a range of so - called megacity vehicles beginning with the compact i3 city car and sleek i8 sports car.

Every day, thousands of airliners crisscross the air corridors over the Atlantic, ferrying tourists and business men between megacities like New York and London.

It occurs above densely populated areas under certain meteorological conditions and has been a problem in Chinese megacities for many years now.

Representing Asian megacities with populations of more than 10 million, this exhibition features 14 large sculptures and installations.

The 2012 World Meteorological Organization / Global Atmosphere Watch report, «Impacts of Megacities on Air Pollution and Climate,» notes that Africa's fast - growing cities are competing in the deadly - air race, as well:

Guangzhou is a sprawling megacity in southern China, near Hong Kong, with a population of more than 8.5 million.

Fearing inequality and social unrest, China's national government has struggled to rein in soaring property prices and stem the threat of inflation, even as ambitious local officials continue to draw up blueprints for new megacities.

A selection of promising museum shows on everything from Asian megacities to Robert Mapplethorpe.

The C40 group of so - called megacities met in Sao Paolo with mayors of some of the world's major population centres gathering to try and find a way to build a low carbon future.

Built on the sloping shores of Lake Ontario, Toronto is arguably the cultural centre of the country — though some would argue for Montreal, or Ottawa... whatever side you decide to pick, Toronto is for sure a global megacity unlike any other, and it is definitely one of Canada's most important... Read more.

This Forum will have meetings of Mayors from megacities who will make strong commitments to deal with water in their cities, through the Istanbul Urban Water Consensus.

If other megacities do too, urban methane emissions may represent an important source of this potent greenhouse gas.

Other groups have warned that high heat and high humidity, in places like the Gulf region, could by the end of the century have reached lethal levels; that conditions could become so fierce as to trigger a new exodus of peoples from the Middle East and North Africa; and that those people crammed into megacities — always several degrees warmer than the surrounding hinterland — in the vulnerable regions of the globe could be at risk on a huge scale as hazards rise over the decades.

Prof Subodh Mhaisalkar, Executive Director of the Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI @N), said: «The biggest challenge with electric cars in tropical megacities is the range that they can travel on a full - charge, because their batteries are needed to power both the engine and the air - conditioning.

The energy, media attention and research resources revolving around the Zika virus epidemic must be harnessed and used to bring the largely ignored urban slum populations of megacities around the world into the global spotlight, the study argues.

Each time I download maps like megacity Jurassic world and GTA 5 San Andreas it kicks me out of Minecraft I put might be because my device (which is an Welcome, Buying on the Opera shop means helping funding its shows.

The Longest Journey was a 3D adventure game released in 1999 which tracked the adventures of April Ryan, a student in the futuristic American megacity of Newport who finds herself transported to the parallel, magic - based world of Arcadia.

Most Chinese megacities top 100 severely hazy days each year with particle concentrations two to four times higher than WHO guidelines, Yang said.

Duren is involved with the Los Angeles Megacities Carbon Project, a major effort of NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology to thoroughly measure methane and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere above major urban centers.

Socio (s): UNHABITAT, WB, The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, United Cities and Local Governments, Citynet, Earthquake Megacities Initiative

This time around, though, Shen would have a partner — a «conflicted, corrupt» man named Henry Fang — who would help explore China's Pearl River megacity.

The never sleeping megacity of Edenbyrg is full of crime.

As reported in a special meeting of the world's oldest scientific academy, Britain's Royal Society, in 2006, it is matter of decades before a natural disaster kills over one million people, in Tokyo, Teheran, Istanbul or any of the coastal megacities of the world.

«Sydney Harbor emissions equivalent to 200 cars on the roads: Journal publishes 1st CO2 footprint of growing megacity icon on World Environment Day.»

Sydney's emissions were found to be significantly less than China's major dammed river, the Yangtze, which is adjacent to megacities including Shanghai.

Photographed in many cities across continents, the images merge to create an archetypal megacity of endless glass and steel grids, layer upon layer — uniformly resembling each other.

It's at home in megacities where combustion engine cars are being restricted.

The Lagos state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, on Tuesday declared that the state would by 2025, be Africa's model megacity, a global, economic and financial hub that...

Kennedy remains positive: «I'm more optimistic about creating sustainable megacities now than I was before we started the research.

From another perspective, the value was $ 35 per capita for the average megacity resident.

The figure was determined as per megacity (a city with over 10 million inhabitants), 10 of which were included in the research: Beijing, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Istanbul, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Moscow, Mumbai, and Tokyo.

An accidental introduction to any of the teeming megacities of the tropics could precipitate disaster at a level we normally associate with influenza epidemics.

It's not often that a single discovery can illuminate both the history of science and ancient office culture — but that is what happened in the ancient Mayan megacity of Xultun, in present - day Guatemala.

«This work allows us to start thinking about the urban metabolism of Chicago, which is an emerging megacity surrounded by «corn country,»» Geiger said.

Why not, for example, the 30 largest megacities get together in a climate agreement.

Built on the sloping shores of Lake Ontario, Toronto is arguably the cultural centre of the country — though some would argue for Montreal, or Ottawa... whatever side you decide to pick, Toronto is for sure a global megacity unlike any other, and it is definitely one of Canada's most important cities.

Toyota i - Road: Intended for crowded megacities, the i - Road concept is an electric drive motorcycle with three wheels, two seats, one motor, and a composite body structure to protect the occupants from the weather and mishaps.

Mike Mitchell is an average New Yorker struggling just to keep his family together when a string of disasters shreds the bustling megacity around them.

Mobile farms can make shared urban farming possible in such a dense megacity.

(Thomson Reuters Foundation)-- São Paulo, Brazil's drought - hit megacity of 20 million, has about two months of guaranteed water supply remaining as it taps into the second of three emergency reserves, officials say.

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.

Megacities extremely vulnerable to natural perils, technological risks, terrorism and environmental hazards / More risk awareness and greater transparency urgently needed with regard to hazard exposure / Munich Re presents its views at the UN's World Conference on Disaster Reduction

«Population has exploded,» explains Levy, «creating megacities with appalling conditions that breed pathogens.

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