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Oct 24, 2010
Sunday Statshot

Sunday Morning Statshot

Post by nickchu

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%

Solution: Tata Tower

Vertical parking spots available: 4050

One day attendance in Shanghai Expo 2010: 1,000,000

Size: 5 square kilometers

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

Human civilization: 1,241,166

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

In Dhaka: 4.2 million

In Mumbai: 6.7 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

London: up to 500x 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

Dubai’s debt: $26 billion

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

Voter turnout: 54%

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2 Comments

  • Scott B says:

    “Auckland: up to 500x higher” in the context of relationship between urban and rural land values.

    I live in auckland and this is not the case. Our Metropolitan urban limit is set quite wide to try and keep urban land values affordable. In fact an entire new suburb is being devolved (flat bush), which by the way is in South-east auckland which means it has poor transport links (no motorway or rapid transit)

    I think the 500x stat was for London.

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