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  Jakarta, sustainable Africa, pyongyangapalooza, spiritual Antarctica, zero-carbon UK, more

  Jeffrey Hill | Tue, Feb 26th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: jeffrey hill, foreclosure, new york philharmonic, jakarta, united kingdom, polycentric development, christopher silver, sustainable environment, tampa downtown partnership, mecca, indonesia, kim jong il, africa, zero-carbon suburb, pyongyang, antarctica, sustainable urbanization | 0

  New book from urban scholar, Christopher Silver, calls the city of Jakarta “chaotic, yet well planned.”

  The Jakarta Post reports: “Silver, who used studies, reports, interviews with planners and academics as research for his book, concluded, “The more I looked, I began to seriously question my earlier assumption that Jakarta had just grown without a plan. In fact, Jakarta is a planned city. When asked what he thought about the many shopping centers built around the capital, Silver…

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• The Daily Report

  London: The new world capital?

  Jeffrey Hill | Wed, Dec 26th, 2007 | Category: Report | City: London | Tags: jeffrey hill, paris, mexico city, tokyo, london, united kingdom, new world capital, oag, the guardian, the independent, world capital | 0

  The Independent, a British compact newspaper, recently conducted a study comparing the world’s largest cities’ population figures, financial markets, tourism trends, transport facilities, transportation, sports and arts events in an effort to name the new world capital. Using 14 separate criteria that help to define a city, the London newspaper calculated and scored hundreds of cities. An explanation of their study can be read here.

  After months of researching what the paper claims to…

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