Last night 40,000 people rented accommodation from a service that offers 250,000 rooms in 30,000 cities in 192 countries.

Districts all over the country are taking notice, along with mayors in cities like New York, Chicago and San Diego.

And the rain is spread out over more days than those cities.

As smaller cities copy the model of these "24-hour cities", more affordable versions of these places will be created.

Capital cities are full of tourists and are never friendly.

Cities that get more rainfall than Seattle include Huston, Memphis, Nashville, and pretty much every major city on the eastern coast, such as New York, Boston, and Miami.

In fact, Seattle ranks 44th among major US cities in average annual rainfall.

In other words, when it comes to cities—or anything else—it is hard to predict the future.

It could also get people out of cities in danger of being bombed.

Kasarda says future cities should be built intentionally around or near airports.

More people who lived in cities and suburbs said they wanted to try driverless cars than those who lived in rural areas.

More productive farmers meant there was a surplus that could feed cities; in turn, that created a pool of labour for factories.

That means there's little money around for investment that would make cities liveable and more productive.

The report says America's urbanization will continue to be the most significant issue affecting the industry, as cities across the country imitate the walk ability and transit oriented development making cities like New York and San Francisco so successfu

The world is dotted with futuristic, high-tech cities trying to attract the biggest international companies.

There have been a lot of Utopian (烏托邦的) cities in history.

These stages will span sectors, take people to different cities, and provide a foundation for building a wide variety of skills.

Today I found out that Seattle doesn't really get that much rain compared with most US cities.

Today, when time zones have less and less meaning, there is little tolerance for offices' closing for lunch, and worsening traffic in cities means workers can't make it home and back fast enough anyway.

Yet cities in sub-Saharan Africa are not getting richer the way cities in the rest of the world have.

Migrants to cities are attracted by plentiful jobs, access to hospitals and education, and the ability to escape the boredom of a farmer's agricultural life.

His main thesis is that the buzz of urban life, and the opportunities it offers for co-operation and collaboration, is what attracts people to the city, which in turn makes cities into the engines of art, commerce, science and progress

Smith touches on construction methods, the revolutionary invention of the automatic lift, the practicalities of living in the sky and the likelihood that, as cities become more crowded, apartment living will become the norm.

The population increase in cities reached a new peak in Asia and Africa

It aggravates the squalor of cities.

It has fewer violent crimes than big cities.

Many coastal cities will be covered with water.

How vulnerable the coastal cities are

Among global warming's most frightening threats is the prediction is that the polar ice-caps will melt, raising sea level so much that coastal cities from New York to Los Angles to Shanghai will be flooded.

If such an earthquake happened today, it would be felt from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean and would flatten most of the cities in the Mississippi valley.

18-hour cities combine the best of 24-hour and 9-5 cities, which contributes to downtown revitalization.

Analyzing and comparing cities using the lens of this basic divide gives interesting context to how investment capital flows and housing prices have shifted.

Because of their smaller size, most keep hours that allow people to enjoy themselves, then have some quiet after midnight, as opposed to large major cities like New York, where the buzz of activity is ongoing.

But simply switching to electric can will not mean pollution-free cities.

Cerling's team collected tap water samples from 600 cities and constructed a map of the regional differences.

For decades, many downtown cores in small to mid-sized cities were abandoned after work hours by workers who lived in the suburbs.

Globally, urban populations are expected to double in the next 40 years, and an extra 2 billion people will need new places to live, as well as services and ways to move around their cities.

However, this is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg as smart buildings and even cities increasingly become the norm as leaders and business owners begin to wake up to the massive savings that technology can deliver through connected sensors and new fo

In many of these cities such as Denver, a diverse and vigorous economy attracted to the urban core has offered stable employment for residents.

In recent years, many mid-sized cities have begun to adopt a middle-of-the-road approach incorporating the excitement and opportunity of large cities with small cities' quiet after midnight.

It's time to wake up to the fact that making smart buildings, cities and homes will dramatically improve our quality of life in the years ahead.

The biggest and most exciting challenge of this technology is how to creatively leverage this ever-growing amount of data to deliver cost savings, improvements and tangible benefits to both businesses and citizens of these smart cities.

The persistent haze over many of our cities is a reminder of the polluted air that we breathe, over 80% of the world's urban population is breathing air that fails to meet World Health Organisation guidelines.

The report focused on poor urban areas, where farms in or near cities supply relatively inexpensive food.

The same goes for numerous big cities around the world.

These 18-hour cities are beginning to make waves in real estate rankings and attract more real estate investment.

These 18-hour cities are rapidly on the rise and offer great opportunities for homeowner investment.

Twenty years ago, the Urban Land Institute defined the two types of cities that dominated the US landscape: smaller cities that operated around standard 9-5 business hours and large metropolitan areas that ran all 24 hours of the day.

Unlike developed cities, however, these areas lack advanced water-treatment facilities, and rivers effectively become sewers.

with the rise of a new concept in urban planning that aims to make life easier and more convenient, however, increasing popularity for urban areas that caused the real estate pushes, in major cities like San Francisco or New York, has inspired a type of f

You will hear more and more about migration between countries and between rural areas and cities.