The air heats as it moves through the city to the center, then rises, cools and condenses into rain.
Residents slept outside in cars or fled to the suburbs far from the city's high rises as more than 300 aftershocks rattled the area throughout the day, according to state-run media.
The city has seen one of the steepest rises in homeless families in the past decade, up 73% since 2002.
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The 4, 630m-high Imbabura volcano, which gives its name to the province, rises nearby, and the capital city of Quito is just 90km to the south, a journey that takes you over the equator and into the southern hemisphere.
More than 55, 000 people a day ride the city's main escalator, which rises from Central to the residential district of Mid-levels.
On the opposite coast, Los Angeles has opted to construct a garbage mountain 500 feet high, taller than most of the city's high-rises.
Bushman's students, among the best and the brightest in the New York City public school system, notice that the index rarely rises above 10%.
Measures taken in the Lion City to contain home price rises were facing business pushback this week.
Business travellers hoping for better views of the city and bay should consider the cluster of elegant hotel high-rises on the northern end of Marina Bay.
From the outset, the couple knew they didn't want to live in one of the city's many new high-rises.
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Every day, more high rises spring up top house the city's 16 million people.
As well as announcing plans to freeze council tax, Mr Goodway said budgets for schools and social services in the city were being protected, and both would see rises in cash available.
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Many of the buildings are high-rises whose skeletons are making Panama City look like an out-of-water coral reef.
In this image, Rodenbach rises up against the twilit background of the Flemish city of Bruges, whose medieval houses and towers stand above its immemorial canals.
However, Richard Donnell, an analyst at Savills, points out that the rises in London property prices coincided with bumper years in the City, for the good reason that 40% of those that buy in the prime central London locations work there.
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As price rises at the top of the market ripple across the rest of the city, even first-time buyers earning well above average incomes have found themselves priced out of the market.
The city, which attracts millions of tourists every year, is seeing sea-level rises of around 2 mm per year, together with slow, mostly natural, subsidence of about another 2 mm every year.
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