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
2 Comments
“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.
Fixed!