More than 80 years ago, another adventurer came to these jungles, looking for lost cities, buried treasure and mystical ancient objects with strange powers.
In their paper Consumer City, Ed Glaeser, Jed Kolko, and Albert Saiz argue that cities lost their manufacturing bases when they lost the transportation cost advantage.
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On Wednesday, Pakistan's prime minister, Shaukat Aziz, said that instead of rebuilding cities lost in the quake, the government would build new settlements, constructed to higher standards, nearby.
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"The battle for sustainable development, for delivering a more environmentally stable, just and healthier world, is going to be largely won and lost in our cities, " said Klaus Toepfer, Unep's executive director.
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Many Mapuches in the cities have lost their jobs, forcing them to return to their villages, straining resources already limited by a prolonged drought.
The Ionian cities eventually lost their freedom, first to the Lydians and then to the Persians, whose attempt to conquer Greece ended with their defeat by the Greek allies at the battle of Plataea in 479 B.
With the advent of the machine age, and the influx of workers into cities to work in factories, people gradually lost control over their own destinies.
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Colchester and Southend both lost out to Chelmsford to become one of three new UK cities named as part of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
In cities and towns across America where jobs are being lost at a dramatic rate, revival of local and regional economies will require strategic investments in human capital made possible by highly trained and motivated teachers and a curriculum that provides students with 21st -century skills.
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Partly because fewer college-educated workers lost their jobs during the recession, so lower unemployment rates in some cities simply reflect a brainier citizenry.
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But the demographic challenges of the Big Orange and the Windy City pale compared to those faced by many cities in the old industrial Rust Belt, which have either lost population or posted only weak increases.
They lost almost 15% of their mayors, but won six of the bigger cities.
He was among roughly 3, 800 refugees, dubbed the Lost Boys of Sudan by reporters and aid workers, who were resettled in cities across the United States.
Their funds remained mostly intact, but cities including New Orleans, Austin, Texas, and Salt Lake City lost almost all such money.
And when that industry shrank and so many jobs were lost, who could have guessed that Pittsburgh would fare better than many other Rust Belt cities, and reemerge as a center for technology and green jobs, health care, and education?
Many farm jobs were lost, but mostly it was the sons and daughters of farmers moving to the towns and cities to take factory and other jobs.
The associated slide show lists the 10 cities in America having the worst traffic jams and details the average amount of time lost forever while stuck in traffic (compared to driving when cars are at their normal pace).
Across the span of four games in four cities, wild card playoff berths were on the line for underdogs to snatch from teams that lost large leads and who will watch the 2001 MLB postseason from the sofa.
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Recent demonstrations in Port Said and nearby cities along the Suez Canal are symbolic because that region was among the first where the Mubarak regime lost control during the 2011 unrest leading to revolution, analysts said.
They were here to see "Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview, " a documentary of sorts that's now playing in a handful of U.S. cities.
After her husband lost his job working for an importer of home appliances in late 2010, he tried desperately to find another in cities near his village.
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