The 20 Most Popular Cities In The World To Visit In 2012 I was just getting ready to go on a European vacation when my e-mail pinged with a press release from MasterCard about the second annual list of the 20 most visited cities in the world.
In 2005 it hosted the first World Cities Leadership Climate Change Summit, a meeting which paved the way for the creation of the C40 -- a group of large cities committed to tackling climate change that includes members as diverse as New York, Buenos Aires, Istanbul, Johannesburg and Jakarta.
Because not only is it one of the most interesting and vibrant cities in the world, it is one of the most important cities in Western Civilization.
The challenge of the day is - can the mega-cities of the world emerge with the qualities we seek in the smaller, vital cities of the past?
Already, 75 percent of the world's 21 mega-cities are based in the developing world, and by some estimates, 27 of the 33 mega-cities expected to exist by 2015 will be in developing countries.
Two-fifths of the world's cities of 1m-10m people, and 15 of the world's 20 megacities, lie on or near a coast, where many are at risk from flooding.
But on election day, politics is dominating over the religious beliefs of one of the oldest cities in the world.
The problem of waste disposal, which torments and troubles the municipalities and administrations of the major cities of the world, will vanish by overnight.
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One of the most beautiful things about New York is its diversity of people that live together in the confines of one of the largest cities in the world.
While most people know the joys of Ski Dubai, the infamous man-made ski centre at Mall of the Emirates, not everyone is aware that you can also have a ski vacation in one of the hottest cities in the world.
The shot-blasted, satin-brushed and polished rotating bezel bears the names of 24 world cities, symbols of the international 24 time zones on its brown upper flange.
With about 150 languages, it is also among the most diverse cities in the world.
"Chicago will be one of the most connected cities in the world, " said Mayor Emanuel.
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Now as Rudy Giuliani never stops telling people, New York is one of the safest large cities in the world.
Thirteen of the 20 largest cities in the world, such as Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Karachi and Manila, are on the coast.
Seventeen of the 25 densest cities in the world are in Asia.
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It might be one of the most dangerous places in one of the most dangerous cities in the world and a new documentary tells us why.
"It is clear that the public do not want raw sewage in this iconic river, through one of the most important cities in the world, " he concluded.
Since New York is one of the best music cities in the world and is right in our backyard, contributing to the digital music conversation during Internet Week just feels right to us.
With all this, it is easy to see why most paint Perth as bright, fun and a '"laid-back place to visit", forgetting how it is one of the most isolated cities in the world.
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"I was incredibly proud that this piece of the Potteries exists in the middle of one of the most amazing cities in the world, but I suspect there are a lot of people in Stoke who don't know about it, " he said.
The fact that Romania has an average January temperature in the mid-20s, the lowest per capita income in the European Union and is the home to both Dracula and Copsa Mica, one of the most polluted cities in the world, never entered into my thinking.
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Gaziantep is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, and the real estate business goes back 4, 000 years.
She will now play two shows a week at Campfield Market Hall for the next three weeks before taking the show to eight cities around the world over the coming two years.
When it comes to the Olympics, host cities around the world typically spend billions on venues, infrastructure, security and other assorted necessities for the privilege of bringing in tens of thousands of guests for 17 days.
This city of the Indus civilization was excavated in the 1920s and 1930s, spreading over an area of almost 600 acre and 10% of which has been excavated and was one of the most ancient planned cities in the world built entirely of fired brick in accordance to a carefully designed urban planning scheme.
Tokyo has ranked among the world's largest cities for centuries, and the experience shows in its ability to deliver services to its residents.
How much richer would the world's cities and museums be if today, instead of shattered fragments and armless torsos, we had the undamaged whole?
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a CGI commitment that a group of the world's cities would be taking: The creation of an assessment framework for evaluating risks from climate change.
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