GVNY's List of 2005's Most Fascinating Cities!

Here is the list of GVNY's Most Fascinating Cities 2005!

Cities
1 Chongqing, China
2 Samarqand, Uzbekistan
3 Istanbul, Turkey
4 Varanasi, India
5 Venice, Italy
6 Bombay, India
7 Alexandria, Egypt
8 Marrakech, Morocco
9 Buenos Aires, Argentina
10 Dakar, Senegal
11 Paris, France
12 Kashgar, China
13 New York City, USA
14 Shanghai, China
15 Cadiz, Spain

Having traveled extensively over the past two years, I have collected a list of the cities that intrigued me the most.>

MLK Dr., St., Blvd, etc in your city?

Over time I've noticed an interesting trend in many cities that have a thoroughfare designated as MLK something or other. It appears that MLK only runs through "black areas" of a given city. On the surface it might seem reasonable enough as he was highly regarded by many blacks. But he had an impact on all American citizens, not just the blacks ones. Yet, I have never personally seen an MLK street run through a mostly white area. It just seems strange that cities (especially ones using a simple grid pattern) would suddenly change the name of a street once it passes into an area with different demographics. Macon, Georgia is one example. Once MLK reaches the "business district" (if you can call it that), it suddenly changes to Broadway Avenue.

What are your observations?

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Which cities surprised you?????

Following the same line of the thread "Wich cities dissapointed you?" I would like to ask you which cities were better than what you expected??>

North American Suburbs VS. Asian Suburbs

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The Most Liberal City in the U. S.

Which is the most liberal city in the United States? Somehow San Francisco immediately comes to mind...>

Smog city?

What city is THE smog city?

You hear many story about Los Angeles air polution. I mean just look at it


And in Mexico City the situation isn't any better.


Another city which has serious air pollution is Venice. During my holiday in Croatia two years ago we decided to go to Venice by boat. When near to Venice so saw a big cloud of smog hanging above the city.

Chinese cities have mostly smog but I also heard of Tbilisi, Georgia have mayor problems with its air quality.


But what city has the worst air quality of the world?>

Your city's biggest population boom period.

As most of us know all cities had their population boom periods and some still are having them. Some cities had long boom periods, others only for a short time. It would be great if you would share your city's raw and percentage growth during its greatest population boom. For example NYC's greatest population boom took place between 1900-1930. The city's population doubled in that period from 3.4million to 6.9million. It averaged a growth of 2%-4% over 30 years.

1900:3.437m
1910:4.767m
1920:5.620m
1930:6.930m>