[Beijing] - Population
The influx of migrant workers into the capital had seen Beijing's population reach 17.4 million, the paper said in a separate report, only 600,000 short of a ceiling of 18 million the city government had set for 2020. Reuters, 4 December 2007
Quote of the Day
"Bogota is a city of conversation. As yo walk along you have to keep skirting couples or small groups, all absorbed in excited talk. Some of them even stand out in the middle of the street, holding up the traffic. We suppose they are discussing politics. The cafes are crammed, too; and everybody has a newspaper, to quote from or simply wave in the air". The Condor and the Cows, Christopher Isherwood
Two cities
"For centuries, travelers, historians, writers, politicians, tourists and even Italians themselves like to compare these two cities : Florence and Siena." Desmond Ong
Perfect City
"So what do we learn from the Bologna model? if you want create utopia, put your city in the middle of a rich agricultural area; make good eating a priority for everyone; set up a large university and allow it freedom if thought; spend 1000 years building and preserving a historic centre; let workers band together to improve their conditions, run their own businesses, and form a political party; and have your city regularly criticised by religious conservatives so that your citizens can enjoy a satisfying sense of boldness. What could be simpler?"
Essential Places, David Dale
Essential Places, David Dale
The most Beautiful Italian City
Jakob Burckhardt the great historian of the Italian Renaissance wrote, "Considering individual buildings, there are four or five cities preceeding Bologna, but it is and remains the most beautiful Italian city judged as a whole".
Quotes of the Day
"For the first time in human history more than half of the world lives in cities and it's rising". Sustain That, Architecture Review Australia 2005
"While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand;
When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall;
And when Rome falls -- the world"
-Lord Byron-
"Florence is beautiful, as I have said before, and must say again and again, most beautiful. The river rushes through the midst of its palaces like a crystal arrow, and it is hard to tell, when you see all by the clear sunset, whether those churches, and houses, and windows, and bridges, and people walking, in the water or out of the water, are real walls and windows, and bridges, and people, and churches." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Letter to Mr. Boyd (1847)
"While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand;
When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall;
And when Rome falls -- the world"
-Lord Byron-
"Florence is beautiful, as I have said before, and must say again and again, most beautiful. The river rushes through the midst of its palaces like a crystal arrow, and it is hard to tell, when you see all by the clear sunset, whether those churches, and houses, and windows, and bridges, and people walking, in the water or out of the water, are real walls and windows, and bridges, and people, and churches." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Letter to Mr. Boyd (1847)
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