| The growing prevalence of megacities means that they are extremely important to marketers in all kinds of industries. |
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| Besides, in the next 15 years, Bangalore is slated to be counted among the 20 megacities of the world. |
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| Hence, the two megacities in the Montreal region suffered devastating defeats. |
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| In three decades covering the Middle East, I have watched it evolve from a largely rural society to a realm of teeming megacities. |
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| In all, 51 of 86 former municipalities in the merged megacities managed to obtain enough signatures. |
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| To them, the growth of megacities is justified because it offers something more than unremitting rural poverty. |
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| But many of the world's cities and sprawling megacities over 10 million inhabitants have developed anarchically. |
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| At the same time, the traffic problems in our megacities are getting worse and worse. |
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| Of that two billion increase, 90 percent of those individuals will be in developing countries, with 90 percent of them in the megacities. |
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| Germany is actively involved in the international debate on how to develop solutions to the problems of megacities. |
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| Protecting watersheds provides many of the world's megacities with freshwater-and saves billions of dollars. |
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| There are two major problems with that strategy for attenuating the transport problems, and other problems, of the megacities. |
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| The same overcommunication and overpopulation system produces the phenomenon of megacities, which will soon number over fifty! |
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| Emerging megacities like Kinshasa or Lima do not command important global niches. |
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| By 2010, 20 out of the world's 30 megacities will be on the coast, and therefore increasingly vulnerable to sea-level rise, coastal erosion, and other physical hazards. |
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| Delhi, Karachi, Mumbai, and Dhaka are four of the world's largest megacities. |
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| I have absolutely no idea how megacities are going to bail out. |
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| Exemption from London's congestion charge, free parking in some urban areas and the ability to zip around congested Chinese megacities that heavily restrict petrol-powered cars are all selling points. |
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| Mr Deng's brainchild is a proud declaration by a local government far inland that it wants a consumer culture like that in megacities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. |
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| Economic reforms have turned it into a manufacturing and exporting behemoth, and have prompted a vast movement of people away from the countryside to the cavernous factories and sprawling megacities of the new China. |
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| Plus, there is a strong trend towards urbanisation, ever growing megacities and increasing consumer awareness about how unsustainable some aspects of our economies have become. |
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| Only six of these megacities will be located in OECD countries. |
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| In 1975, there were five megacities worldwide. |
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| Although the trend of urbanization is well known, it is less well understood that most of the growth in urban centres is not happening in megacities. |
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