A QUICK LOOK AT SOME OF THE STATISTICS THAT MAKE YOUR CITIES WORK (OR NOT):
Length of NY’s subways: 10 car trains
Length of each car: 50 feet (15.24m)
Average number of jumpers per week in 2009: 3
Number of assaults on NY bus drivers in 2009: 51
What you call angry transit riders suffering from declining mass transit services: “Aisle Rage”
Launch date for Toronto’s bike share program: May 11, 2011
First woman to pitch professionally in 3 countries: Eri Yoshida
Number of >8 storey buildings in 1980 Shanghai: 121
Number of >8 storey buildings in 2005 Shanghai: 10045
Cost of a Manhattan parking space: $225,000
Average cost of an apartment in Manhattan: $1.3 million
Percent of Mexico City’s inhabitants living in illegal and informal housing: 60%
Number of people added to the city of New York’s population per hour by 2015: 12
Number of people added to the city of Lagos’ population per hour by 2015: 58
Number of city regions exceeding population of 1 million in 1825: 0
Number of city regions exceeding population of 1 million today: 450
Percent reduction in car use in London central since congestion fee implementation: 21%
Population of the all-white Johannesburg during apartheid: 250,000
Post apartheid population of Johannesburg : 3.25 million
Population of Sandton – the new financial core of Johannesburg: 160,000 people
Population Density of Sandton: 1500 people per square km
Population of Alexandra – impoverished black neighbourhood: 350,000 people
Population Density of Alexandra: 45000-81000 people per square km
Cost to ride the new Delhi Metro: 20 cents to 67 cents
Length of Metro: 118 miles (189km)