4.1 - How can cities throughout the world be classified?

4.1 - How can cities throughout the world be classified?

1. Britain

   • Cities used to depend on whether or not they had a Cathedral
   • Now - Settlement hierarchy + hierarchy of services
   • More villages than cities - but cities have higher pop density
   • Most liveable cities in 2001 polls - 1) Vancouver 2) Melbourne 3) Vienna

2. Paris, La Defense district

   • Plan launched 2006 - issues when property market died 2007
     • delayed 3 yrs because of crisis - tower expected completion 2010 - now 2013
   • Redevelopment - 2 new buildings, several overhauled
   • Plans to increase development - more retail + offices
   • District would grow to 1730 acres
     • 3.5x bigger than Canary Wharf
   • Biggest project - One of biggest skyscrapers in Western Europe
     • $3.65 billion pair of towers
   • Issues - High levels of vacancies - Some 38%

3. Singapore's One-North Biomedical Park

   • One of world's leading biomedical hubs
   • Biopolis
     • Biomedical research complex
       • Built to accommodate top research institutes, private research organisations and biomedical universities
     • Phase 1 - Sept 2003 - 2 million sq ft, seven building complex
     • More than 2000 working here
     • Phase 2 - 2006 - 2 new research buildings - additional 398,000 sq ft - cost $70 million
     • Phase 3 - 2008 - 2 more research buildings - 136,000 sq ft - further $100,000
     • Phases 4 + 5 - 2010 - £80 million and $100 million respectively
       • Phase 5 - Twin towers - basic labs - 31,500 sq ft - $87 million
       • Projected completion 2013
     • Total cost - $787 million
   • Tuas Biomedical Park
     • $100 million invested - divided into 2 parks
     • Combined area of 39,900,000 sq ft
       • Dedicated to manufacturing-related activities for pharmaceuticals, biopharmaceuticals, biologics, vaccine, medical devices and nutritionals related companies
   • Pop 4.9 million
   • GDP $61 billion
   • Annual growth 6.5% 2008