| I had planned to spend my first Saturday-night in the megacity up in my almost double bed watching something interesting in the telly. |
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| Prior to amalgamation, five of the six municipalities that would make up the megacity ran their own shelters. |
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| This is the ominous new era of doublespeak about land-use planning in the megacity. |
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| Like Tremblay, he promises to help municipalities wiped out by the megacity maintain their sense of community. |
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| Even in the most sophisticated urbanized area of a megacity, every human being is utterly dependent on the generosity of nature. |
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| The United Nations coined the term megacity in the 1970s to describe metropolises with 10 million or more residents. |
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| But that proved a real challenge when I found myself in the Indian megacity of Mumbai last week as a part of the Guardian Cities team. |
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| He introduced a proposal for a semi-annual sales tax holiday, and supported extending North York's sidewalk snow removal program to the entire megacity. |
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| The overwhelming megacity of Ibadan in the federal state of Oyo is one of the largest on the continent of Africa. |
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| By definition, a megacity is a city with a population in excess of 10 million citizens. |
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| Ridiculed by downtowners, Scarborough is much larger than most people realize, filling almost a third of the megacity map and home to 24 per cent of its population. |
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| On this day, the megacity received 944mm of rainfall – the average amount for the entire season, and a 100-year high. |
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| These megacity mayors reflect and embody the ascendency of cities in a world of dysfunctional nation-states. |
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| His high quality images reflect the diverse realities of people who form the mix of cultures and influences in the megacity that is Lagos. |
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| Kinshasa, capital of one of the world's poorest countries, is now the world's fastest growing future megacity. |
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| The dominance of large and dense capital cities in many developing countries suggests that these advantages continue up to megacity size. |
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| A growing array of critics understand the need to break with the megacity mantra. |
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| The damage done to people by megacity urbanism is most pronounced in poorer countries. |
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| Nearly two-thirds of the sewage in the megacity of Dhaka, with 15 million people, is untreated. |
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| The 12 pension funds are the leftover from the formation of the megacity. |
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| In March 2001, Toronto works staff gave five transfer stations around the megacity the green light to accept electronics in their collection duties. |
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| But it also reveals how frustratingly futile the task can be in a land-hungry megacity, by constantly throwing up glimpses of parking lots, temples and garbage dumps popping up where mangroves used to be. |
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| The metropolitan area surpassed the 10 million mark in the early 1930s, becoming the first megacity in human history. |
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| Why, for instance, do water users in a megacity like Lagos not pay an extra charge to get cesspits pumped out? |
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| Furthermore, even if the proportion of space devoted to movement in an already highly congested city or in a megacity is low, that does not mean that it can escape its problems simply by building more roads. |
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| It is also the seventh largest city proper in the world, a megacity. |
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| In 2017 Cairo was voted the most dangerous megacity for women with more than 10 million inhabitants in a poll by Thomson Reuters Foundation. |
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| New York can't easily be replaced, and even if it were logistically possible to create another megacity there's no guarantee that resources would re-congeal there. |
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| As a megacity, Tehran faces many of the complex problems in providing adequate water supply and sanitation that are experienced by other large cities in developing countries. |
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| Each amendment would name a street in the proposed city, and provide that public hearings be held into the megacity with residents of the street invited to participate. |
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| Moscow is the northernmost and coldest megacity and metropolis on Earth. |
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| Assessment of Urban Heat Island Effect for Different Land Use-Land Cover from Micrometeorological Measurements and Remote Sensing Data for Megacity Delhi. |
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