Cities of today, cities of tomorrow: http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/special/habitat/

KARACHI,PAKISTAN (αγγλικά, ουρντού, γλώσσες Πακιστάν, Ισλάμ)

http://le-village.ifrance.com/metropoles/pakistan/karachi.html

9 100 000 κατ., 24.52 N 67.03 E

MUMBAI, BOMBAY, INDE (αγγλικά, ινδικές γλώσσες, Ινδουϊσμός)

http://le-village.ifrance.com/metropoles/inde/bombay.html

13 800 000 κατ.(ZONE MÉTRO.), 18.58 N 72.50 E

DELHI, INDE (αγγλικά, χίντι, ινδικές γλώσσες, Ινδουϊσμός)

http://le-village.ifrance.com/metropoles/inde/delhi.html

11 000 000 κατ., 28.40 N 77.13 E

CALCUTTA,INDE (αγγλικά, μπενγκαλί, ινδικές γλώσσες, Ινδουϊσμός)

http://le-village.ifrance.com/metropoles/inde/calcutta.html

11 000 000 κατ.(ZONE MÉTRO.), 22.32 N 88.22 E

DHAKA, BANGLADESH (αγγλικά, μπενγκαλί, Ισλάμ)

http://le-village.ifrance.com/metropoles/bangladesh/dhaka.html

7 500 000 κατ.(ZONE MÉTRO.), 23.42 N 90.25 E

JAKARTA, INDONÉSIE (Ινδονησιακά, Γιαβανέζικα, Ισλάμ)

http://le-village.ifrance.com/metropoles/indonesie/jakarta.html

13 000 000 κατ., 6.10 S 106.48 E

HONG KONG,CHINE (καντονέζικα, αγγλικά, κινέζικες γλώσσες, Κινεζ. θρησκεία)

http://le-village.ifrance.com/metropoles/chine/hk.html

6 300 000 κατ., 2.17 N 114.09 E

PÉKIN, CHINE (μανταρίν, κινεζικές γλώσσες, Κινεζ. θρησκεία)

10 000 000 κατ., 43.10 N 78.53 W

SHENYANG,CHINE (μανταρίν, κινεζικές γλώσσες, Κινεζ. θρησκεία)

http://www.sy-construction.com.cn/guide/indexe.html

(Liaoning province * total population : 6,800,000 & 5,680,000 in downtown.) 6 000 000 κατ.

SHANGAI, CHINE (μανταρίν, κινεζικές γλώσσες, Κινεζ. θρησκεία)

MANILLE, PHILIPPINES (γλώσσες Φιλιππίνων, αγγλικά, Χριστιάν. Καθολική)

http://le-village.ifrance.com/metropoles/philippines/manille.html

13 000 000 κατ., 14.35 N 121.50 E

SÉOUL, CORÉE DU SUD (κορεατικά, Βουδισμός)

http://le-village.ifrance.com/metropoles/coreedusud/seoul.html

11 000 000 κατ.,37.30 N 127.00 E

OSAKA/KOBE/KYOTO, JAPON (ιαπωνικά, Σίντο-Βουδισμός)

13 000 000 κατ., 34.40 N 135.30 W

NAGOYA, JAPON (ιαπωνικά, Σίντο-Βουδισμός)

6 000 000 κατ., 35.10 N 136.55 E

TOKYO, JAPON (ιαπωνικά, Σίντο-Βουδισμός)

http://le-village.ifrance.com/metropoles/japon/tokyo.html

31 000 000 κατ., 35.42 N 139.46 W

SANTIAGO,CHILI (ισπανικά, Χριστιάν. Καθολική)

http://le-village.ifrance.com/metropoles/chili/santiago.html

5 400 000 κατ. (ZONE MÉTRO.), 33.27 S 70.40 W0

BUENOS AIRES,ARGENTINE (ισπανικά, ιταλικά, Χριστιάν. Καθολική)

http://le-village.ifrance.com/metropoles/argentine/buenosaires.html

11 500 000 κατ.(ZONE MÉTRO.), 34.36 S 58.27 W

LIMA, PÉROU (ισπανικά-καστιλιάνικα, ινδοαμερικανικές γλώσσες, Χριστιάν. Καθολική)

http://le-village.ifrance.com/metropoles/perou/lima.html

7 300 000 κατ., 12.03 S 77.03 W

MEXICO, MEXIQUE (ισπανικά-καστιλιάνικα, ινδοαμερικανικές γλώσσες, Χριστιάν. Καθολική)

http://le-village.ifrance.com/metropoles/mexique/mexico.html

23 000 000 κατ., 19.24 N 99.09 W

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRÉSIL (πορτογαλικά, Χριστιάν. Καθολική)

http://le-village.ifrance.com/metropoles/bresil/rio.html

11 000 000 κατ.(ZONE MÉTRO.), 15.45 S 47.55W

SAO PAULO, BRÉSIL (πορτογαλικά, Χριστιάν. Καθολική)

http://le-village.ifrance.com/metropoles/bresil/sao.html

18 000 000 κατ., 15.45 S 47.55W

LOS ANGELES, Etats-Unis (αγγλικά, ισπανικά, Χριστιάν.)

http://le-village.ifrance.com/metropoles/usa/la.html

9 000 000 κατ., 34.03 N 188.14 W

SAN FRANCISCO, Etats-Unis (αγγλικά, ισπανικά, Χριστιάν.)

5 600 000 κατ.(ZONE MÉTRO)

CHICAGO, Etats-Unis (αγγλικά, Χριστιάν. διαμαρτ.)

http://le-village.ifrance.com/metropoles/usa/chicago.html

7 000 000 κατ., 41.51 N 87.39 W

NEW YORK, ÉTATS-UNIS (αγγλικά, Χριστιάν. διαμαρτ)

http://le-village.ifrance.com/metropoles/usa/nyc.html

17 000 000 κατ.

40.43 N 74.01 W

LONDRES, Royaume-Uni (αγγλικά, Χριστιάν. διαμαρτ.)

http://le-village.ifrance.com/metropoles/royaume-uni/londres.html

8 000 000 κατ.,50.30 N 0.10 W

PARIS, France (γαλλικά, Χριστιάν. Καθολική)

http://le-village.ifrance.com/metropoles/france/paris.html

12 000 000 κατ.(ZONE MÉTRO.), 48.52 N 2.20 E

MOSCOU, RUSSIE (ρωσικά, Χριστιάν. Ορθοδοξ.)

http://le-village.ifrance.com/metropoles/russie/moscou.html

13 000 000 κατ., 55.34 N 35.53 E

SAINT-PETERSBOURG, RUSSIE (ρωσικά, Χριστιάν. Ορθοδοξ.)

4 900 000 κατ., 55.45 N 37.42 E

ISTANBUL, TURQUIE (τουρκικά, κουρδικά, Ισλάμ)

http://le-village.ifrance.com/metropoles/turquie/istanbul.html

8 400 000 κατ., 41.01 N 28.58 E

LE CAIRE, ÉGYPTE (αραβικά Αιγύπτου, Ισλάμ)

http://le-village.ifrance.com/metropoles/egypte/cairo.html

11 000 000 κατ.,30.03 N 31.15 E

TÉHÉRAN, IRAN (φαρσι, γλώσσες Ιράν, Ισλάμ Σχία)

http://le-village.ifrance.com/metropoles/iran/teheran.html

11 000 000 κατ.

9 700 000 κατ.(ZONE MÉTRO.), 35.40 N 51.26 E

Lagos is the most populous city in Nigeria, the largest country in Africa.

The metropolitan area, an estimated 300 square kilometers, is a group of islands endowed with creeks and a lago on. Lagos is projected to be one of the world's five largest cities by 2005.

MEGALOPOLIS

In discussing cities, Megalopolis is an important concept.

In the 1950's, the French geographer, Jean Gottmann, recognized a peculiar thing happening along the east coast of the United States. He saw that a number of large cities were growing outward, consuming the intervening farm land on their peripheries as they grew. Some of the places he saw this happening to were already not far from other large neighbors. Gottman thought that these places were actually consuming all the land between them and that it was only a matter of time before several large cities would actually coalesce and eliminate the intervening farmland.

Gottman was looking at places like Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Baltimore, and Washington. His prediction was that ultimately all of these places would grow together into a single continuous urban structure. His name for this single city was Megalopolis, and it would be characterized by a continual string of urban activities, devoide of any intervening farm or rural environment.

In the middle 1960's, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN magazine published a special edition on cities. One of its features was a discussion of Gottman's Megalopolis. It included a mosaic picture of Megalopolis that ran across the bottom of perhaps six or eight continuous pages. The concept had not yet quite been achieved because farmland was still evident between these places; but not much! More evident were suburban residential developments, shopping centers, highways, and similar character. Even today, anyone driving among these cities knows it is not one hundred percent urban yet.

Some people early on called Megalopolis Boshwash (for Boston and Washington) because of the two anchoring towns. Subsequently, the concept was enlarged to include the area as far north as Portland, Maine, and as far south as Norfolk, Virginia.

Gottmann's Megalopolis is an immense concentration of population, amounting to roughly twenty percent of the total in America (around 50 million people) on perhaps two percent of the land area of the country. Further, it includes the greatest assembly of manufacturing there is.

Though this was the original and prototypical Megalopolis and the one we still think of today when we hear the term, there are actually other functional megalopoli in the United States and elsewhere today. To avoid confusing them with the original, we sometimes refer to these neo-megalopoli as conurbantions. They would likely include the area from Milwaukee through Chicago and northern Indiana (the Region); Detroit to Toledo to Cleveland to Pittsburgh; San Diego to Los Angeles; and several others.

Βλέπε τα Κείμενα Εργασίας του 1996 των Ηνωμένων Εθνών  στην ιστοσελίδα

www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/special/habitat/background/bgmain.htm

 The following background papers, called Backgrounders, were prepared by the United Nations Department of Public Information in preparation for the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, held 3-14 June 1996 in Istanbul, Turkey.

 

1. Why a conference on cities?

2. Global Report on Human Settlements

3. Profile of Dr. Wally N’Dow Secretary-General of Habitat II

4. Is there a right to housing?

5. Governance, participation and partnerships

6. Women, homes and communities

7. Partnerships for the urban environment

8. Survival in the Cities: Urban Poverty and Urban Development

9. Population and urbanization