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Urbanization, People, Demographic trends, statistical yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 2011, population, environment economy, connectivity, Asia-Pacific region

Great start to opening up the city to urban farming.

You guys may remember this guy, Enrique Peñalosa. He was the former mayor of Bogata, Colombia and was featured in the documentary we watched, "Urbanized" earlier this year. I thought this was an interesting topic on population and urbanization that also ties in very nicely with our energy unit!

This was great.

Check out the video too.

MOST Westerners facing criminal charges in Cambodia would be thanking their lucky stars at finding themselves safe in another country. But Alejandro Gonzalez-Davidson, who is half British and half Spanish, is pleading with the Phnom Penh government to allow him back to stand trial along with three Cambodian colleagues.

I'm glad to finally see that government of New York City has agreed to offer tax breaks for every building that has turned "green".

City employees in white jumpsuits work quietly in front of a giant wall of screens - a sort of virtual Rio, rendered in real time. Video streams in from subway stations and major intersections. A sophisticated weather program predicts rainfall across the city.

This is a really cool video about a sustainable city. The Abu Dhabi Government created a sustainable city near Dubai, In the United Arab Emirates.

Mr. Kozuch, this is the City I was telling you about.

This is incredible! Let's go. ;-)

UN site providing data on the world, as well as on specific countries. Check out the "data" and "publications" sections -- there's also information about urbanization (and gender and other interesting issues, too).

The World Factbook, produced for US policymakers and coordinated throughout the US Intelligence Community, marshals facts on every country, dependency, and geographic entity in the world. We share this information with the people of all nations in the belief that knowledge of the truth underpins the functioning of free societies.

Six years ago we showed the crazy Chinese 3D fast bus and everyone thought it was silly vaporware. Three years ago we showed an updated version, the Land Airbus which got to the animated video stage. Now it appears that it is at the model stage, zipping through the International High-tech Expo in Beijing the other day.