China's capital is now a megacity of almost 20 million, its streets hectic and clogged.
As in any major city (or megacity), there is no single profile of a resident of Kibera.
The megacity contributes to over 20% of the country's GDP and is also home to a multi-billion dollar informal economy.
The rush of energy you get from taking in this futuristic megacity's outline and its amazing natural topography on which it's built is immense.
There is even a word for the very biggest, the megacity, sometimes defined as an urban area with a population of more than ten million.
India is starved for electricity: in Chennai, the South Indian megacity where the launch occurred, rolling blackouts cut the power for two hours each day.
Central technocrats officially deny plans to create one PRD megacity.
This mammoth World Bank report assesses the imminent costs of climate change in three east megacity ports: Bangkok, Manila and Ho Chi Minh City.
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At least seven others (Chennai, Bangalore, Bogota, Ho Chi Minh City, Dongguan, Chengdu and Hyderabad) are now above 8 million, making it likely they could reach megacity status by 2030.
For example, Biola Ajaga, a single mother in Nigeria's megacity, Lagos, told the BBC that where she lives everyone pays a fee to a vigilante group to keep the peace.
In 1950, the world had exactly two megacities, New York and Tokyo. (A megacity is defined as a metropolitan area of 10 million people or more.) As of 2010, Earth had 23 megacities, 12 of them in Asia.
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The guest rooms and suites also feature an intelligent-thermostat system, though when I visited, it wasn't hitting on all cylinders: My room was perpetually chilly, and my clothes and sheets slightly damp--humidity being a major annoyance in this seaside megacity.
German carmaker BMW - SGL Automotive's only customer and owner of 49% of its shares - uses the material to produce body parts for the main cabins of its futuristic plug-in models i3 Megacity and i8 sports car, which will hit the road in 2013 and 2014.
As a former resident of the SF Bay Area (where the BART is), frequent business traveller to WA DC (where MARTA is) and now living in Orlando, it is clear to me that Central Florida is missing out on the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be a future US MegaCity.
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The series is not a sales pitch to buy the new 5-series, but rather an effort to position BMW as a forward-thinking entity in preparation for the launch of the electric car, the BMW i3, also called the Megacity Vehicle, and is located on the micro-site BMWActivatethefuture.com.
The first two cars are the i3 (formerly known as the Megacity) and the i8 (the auto formerly known as Vision EfficientDynamics), both of which are said to be as fun to drive as a current car but much more efficient thanks to composite construction and electrified powertrains.
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