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Voter initiatives in several cities have also resulted in significant increases in the minimum wage and other worker benefits.
But, as many other well-meaning cities and countries have discovered, cutting CO2 significantly is more difficult than it seems, and may require quite a bit of creative accounting.
But, despite the large protests in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and other cities, the authorities rejected demonstrators’ demands to nullify the election results.
The big development success stories are places like Shanghai, port cities with ready access to world markets.
Upgrades to airports, transportation systems, and tourist services in the host cities all had to satisfy international standards.
Moreover, for the residents of the provincial Russian cities where most of the games will take place, the experience of hosting tens of thousands of fans from other countries will be as eye-opening as the period immediately following the fall of the Iron Curtain.
While rural migrant workers will be encouraged to settle in small and medium-size cities, migration to metropolises will remain tightly controlled – or even be more strictly regulated.
States such as Para in Brazil, along with cities like Bogota and Rio de Janeiro in Latin America and Somerville in the US state of Massachusetts, are starting to use the SPI as a measure of development success.
According to the World Health Organization, 13 of the world’s 20 most polluted cities and towns are in India.
Last month, on the third anniversary of the eruption of protests in Damascus and other Syrian cities, people around the world mobilized in street vigils and online as part of the “With Syria” campaign.
According to OECD estimates, another 316 million people should move from the countryside to China’s cities over the next 20 years.
Fears of excess investment and “ghost cities” fixate on the supply side, without giving due weight to burgeoning demand.
The first great disruption is the shift of economic activity to emerging-market cities.
Nearly half of global GDP growth from 2010 to 2025 will come from 440 emerging-market cities, many of which Western executives may not even know exist.
This is why the new xenophobia has largely been resisted in Europe’s most diverse cities.
The studies also reveal that 17 Chinese cities, each with populations of more than three million, have already reached high-income status.
These cities’ combined population stands at 155 million (11.5% of China’s total population), and their GDP amounts to $2.1 trillion (29.1% of China’s total output).
These were often cases related to the war and ongoing violence in Chechnya or the growing neo-Nazi terror found on the streets of Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and other Russian cities.Estemirova, a key activist in Chechnya for the group Memorial, which is determined to inform Russians about the truth of their modern history, investigated abductions and extrajudicial killings.
The Myth of “Superstar Cities”In a much-talked-about recent paper entitled “Superstar Cities,” economists Joseph Gyourko, Christopher Mayer, and Todd Sinai argue that such high-status cities – not only London, Paris, and New York, but also cities like Philadelphia and San Diego – may show an “ever-widening gap in housing values” when compared with other cities.
Many people view the superstar city theory as confirming their hunch that, despite the current slowdown in home prices elsewhere (particularly in the United States), investors can expect to make huge long-term gains by buying homes in these cities, even though the homes there are already expensive.
Why should home values in glamour cities increase forever?
Gyourko, Mayer, and Sinai justify their claim by arguing that these cities really are unique.
Rich people increasingly populate the most expensive cities.
And, of course, we aren’t getting any more land in these cities.
But what do these arguments really mean for the outlook for investments in homes in superstar cities?Let us consider the fixity of land.
While there is only so much land in any one of the existing superstar cities, in every case, there are vast amounts of land where a new city could be started.
And new cities are started, taking away from the “uniqueness” of existing cities.
The best-known examples of such grand new cities are planned capitals, typically built near countries’ geographic center.
The obvious success of these cities, as both government and economic centers, attests to the fact that urban land derives value from the presence of a well-planned city there.
True, the establishment of such cities is a relatively rare event.
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