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However, a bigger surprise awaited me in Lasbela, a town in Baluchistan province neighboring one of the busiest mega-cities in the world, Karachi.
Susan Davis: A Most Meaningful Birthday Gift From Pakistan Susan Davis 2011
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However, a bigger surprise awaited me in Lasbela, a town in Baluchistan province neighboring one of the busiest mega-cities in the world, Karachi.
Susan Davis: A Most Meaningful Birthday Gift From Pakistan Susan Davis 2011
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The only rapidly growing big city lies on the region's periphery: Istanbul, which straddles the border between Europe and Asia and faces many of the problems common to developing-country mega-cities.
The World's Fastest-Growing Cities Joel Kotkin 2010
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Volkswagen AG luxury brand Audi, for example, invited academics and industry experts to a conference Monday to discuss the challenges of a near future when 70% of the world's people will live in congested mega-cities.
Retooling Luxury Cars for a Younger Generation Joseph B. White 2011
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Tianjin's developers say the city "will serve as an ultra-efficient alternative to ill-planned and heavily polluting mega-cities not only elsewhere in the country, but around the world."
The Media Consortium: Weekly Mulch: White House Relents on Solar Panels; Why Congressional Inaction Hasn't Stopped Green Building The Media Consortium 2010
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The only rapidly growing big city lies on the region's periphery: Istanbul, which straddles the border between Europe and Asia and faces many of the problems common to developing-country mega-cities.
The World's Fastest-Growing Cities Joel Kotkin 2010
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The hardest hit state is Maharashtra with its two mega-cities, Mumbai and Pune on the top of the list of the victims.
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Tianjin's developers say the city "will serve as an ultra-efficient alternative to ill-planned and heavily polluting mega-cities not only elsewhere in the country, but around the world."
The Media Consortium: Weekly Mulch: White House Relents on Solar Panels; Why Congressional Inaction Hasn't Stopped Green Building The Media Consortium 2010
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The only rapidly growing big city lies on the region's periphery: Istanbul, which straddles the border between Europe and Asia and faces many of the problems common to developing-country mega-cities.
The World's Fastest-Growing Cities Joel Kotkin 2010
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The green metropolis concept is a contradiction in terms, because mega-cities like New York are hypertrophic — they have become too big to operate efficiently in a post-carbon world.
The Greatest Misallocation of Resources in the History of the World « PubliCola 2010
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