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A QUICK LOOK AT SOME OF THE STATISTICS THAT MAKE YOUR CITIES WORK (OR NOT):
Percent of Mumbai to be covered with cars by 2030: 25%
Vertical parking spots available: 4050
One day attendance in Shanghai Expo 2010: 1,000,000
Population Density: 200,000 persons per square kilometer
Number of countries worldwide with a population less than Shanghai Expo grounds: 68
Nukes required to wipe out world’s city dwellers: 99,293
Existing nukes on planet: 10,227
Chance of me dying after blogging this post: 35,000,000:1
Times more likely to die by natural disaster in Philippines than in Japan: 17
Number of cyclones in Philippines per year: 75
Residents living in slums: 3 million
Impoverished Americans: 43.6 million
Average farebox recovery in US: 35%
Investment triggered by Portland’s LRT: $8 billion
Property price within urban boundary vs. land outside urban boundary – Portland: 10x higher
“SMART”moms: Suburban moms against rail tax
Cost of London Bike scheme: 140 million pounds
Bicycles stolen in Amsterdam: 54,000 per year
Number fished out of bodies of water: 6000
Bicycle production 1995: 107,000,000 units
Car production 2000: 58,000,000
Smart grid project on Jeju Island, South Korea: $200 billion
Smart grid investment in US: $7.1 billion
Hours Americans spent watching TV: 200 billion
Canada’s first visible minority mayor: Naheed Nenshi
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