Increasingly, conflict and violence take place beyond the boundaries of conventional war.

We travel beyond the limitations of space as we know it, and beyond the limitations of time as we know it.

And cartoons can cross boundaries, as you have seen.

I'm afraid we will cross the bounds of pure friendship.

The challenge is therefore to establish a dialogue within the confines of individual cities and countries, as well as to engage in dialogue across national and other boundaries.

More than half.

The Myth of Superstar Cities

These elements transcend the demarcation lines between North and South, East and West, developed and developing.

Cities were the centres of development and led the world, with the result that local governments found themselves with more and more responsibilities, as cities could no longer sit on the sidelines.

So this is a solution to a situation where China's going to have many, many, many cities over 20 million people.

Discussions at the dialogue stressed the need to go beyond the Cities without Slums target and to achieve all the Millennium Development Goals and targets in cities.

You know, one of the problems with the fiasco of suburbia is that it destroyed our understanding of the distinction between the country and the town, between the urban and the rural.

The individual municipality may also approve building expenditures which exceed the recommended limit per square metre.

Invites Governments in a position to do so to contribute generously to the United Nations Habitat and Human Settlements Foundation to support activities of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme promoting sustainable human settlements development in emergencies and post disaster situations.

In 2003, 39 cities had a population of over 5 million and 16 were megacities, with over 10 million people.

But during that entire process, more and more people have been born, and more and more people are moving to cities.

High levels of urban violence and victimization have generated increasing fear and insecurity among urban populations.

City Limit

Less petrol stations per capita the bigger you are not surprising.

16 World Cities Leadership Climate Summit, 2005, Communiqué from large world cities.

40 percent of the world's energy is taken up by buildings currently, and 60 percent of the world's population will be living in buildings in cities with a population of over one million in the next 15 years.

With more and more people living in cities, noted Mr. Geel, the global village was turning into an urban globe.

By 1990, there were 21 mega cities (with population exceeding 8 million), 16 of them in developing countries.

World Urban Forum

The State of the World's Cities

He pointed out that cities were increasingly becoming home to larger numbers of the population in developing countries, underscoring the need to address the needs of new city dwellers.

He noted that, according to UN Habitat studies, the world's urban population would soon exceed the rural population.

If it's social networks with super linear scaling more per capita then the theory says that you increase the pace of life.

In many cities of the developed world and rural areas of the developing world a quarter or a third of the population are over age 60.

I don't want to overstep myself, but I'll take a chance.

But basically, you've got to get out of town as quickly as possible.

(b) Affordability housing in cities, where land is scarce, is becoming increasingly expensive, which makes owning or even renting prohibitive, especially for indigenous peoples who tend to be among the poorest in almost every society.

Weather transcends political and geographic boundaries.

Old World, cities grow this way.

New World, cities grow this way.

Some 1,200 people had foregathered in Nairobi at the first session of the World Urban Forum, and now nearly 5,000 people had registered for the second session of the Forum, demonstrating that the problems and possibilities of urbanization were gaining an ever increasing attention on the global agenda.

You've outsmarted yourself, you've outsmarted me and everything.

More and more farmers, mostly men, go to cities to find a job. They only come back home at the farming season.

In 2004, The State of the World's Cities Report 2004 2005 Globalization and Urban Culture was launched at the second session of the World Urban Forum and was very well received.

But it could've been anywhere in the city, because more than half the city of Nairobi lives like this.

In fact, I'm trying and I'm going to make this the most sustainable supermarket in the world.

You degrade forests, you go beyond the boundary on land, you undermine the ability of the climate system to stay stable.

Thus, innovation management today not only cuts across all stages of production, but increasingly extends beyond the boundaries of the firm.

Gyourko, Mayer, and Sinai justify their claim by arguing that these cities really are unique. They have only limited land, and if one assumes ever increasing GDP and rising income inequality, there will always be more and more wealthy people to bid up prices in these scarce areas.

And one of these is boundary crossing.