Sentence examples for some megacities from inspiring English sources

Recognizing their impact on climate, some megacities have taken aggressive steps to curtail emissions.

In some megacities, the per capita income is higher than in many European nations, and although the Tiger economies fell into economic depression late in the 1990's, the young just lived with their parents and went out shopping with the money they had left.

Some major megacities have taken up this challenging task: Istanbul, Bogota, and to a lesser extent Mumbai, Manila, and the megacities of other developing and developed countries.

While there are moves to remedy this in some of the megacities, this is likely to take much longer to address in rural areas.

There are now some three dozen megacities in the world, each sprawling areas home to more than 10 million people.

In the slums the costs of bad government can be excruciating, but even here, megacities provide some hope.

Developing some real solutions for megacities could be even more important to people's lives than medical research.

Some of Asia's "megacities" - Bangkok, Manila and Jakarta, for example - face a high risk of flooding because of sea level rise, but are also suffering from land subsidence.

No wonder there is a tension between habitat and inhabitant.Perhaps that tension will lead to some terrible rupture in the megacities now taking shape.

Tau's ideas about the role of a modern, big city mayor have come under particular scrutiny as Johannesburg has played host to the C40 cities mayors' summit, a meeting of some of the world's megacities to discuss the unique challenges – especially climate change – that urban areas face.

"Everything appertaining to this city is on so vast a scale…that it is not easy even to put it in writing .In Marco Polo's day it was the ornate palaces, paved roads and meticulously planned layouts of Chinese cities that impressed visitors; in today's megacities it is some of the world's tallest skyscrapers and largest shopping malls, interlinked by the world's longest bullet-train network.