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Does this study factor in the commute times of public transit? Because if it does, than it doesn't surprise me that NYC is number 2. My brother commutes into the city from my house, and it consists of an hour train ride on the LIRR, than about another 20-30 minutes on the subway from Penn Station to the upper east side. It would actually be much quicker to drive, but much more expensive. New York City is actually not even on the rankings of most congested cities in America, so I am skeptical about this article saying it has the 2nd longest commute times if they are just talking about driving. http://www.insurance.com/Article.aspx/10_Most_Congested_Cities/artid/154 http://mobility.tamu.edu/ums/

Everyone has been naming different portions of I-95, so I'm just going to say, that I hate the entire I-95 road from Boston to Richmond. If you drive on that highway, something will be kicked up from a truck and damage your car (except in Jersey where the trucks are actually separated from the rest of traffic).

Currently residing in Atlanta, GA: Bank of America Building - 1,023 ft (330m)

Here are some more pictures: The Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art): Airplane view of the Harbor: Some old buildings in downtown: The World Financial Center: The Museum of Natural History: The federal court house (it might look familiar from the Martha Stewart Trial): View of the skyline from LaGuardia Airport: The famous Long Island Expressway (LIE) out in the suburbs driving into Manhattan: notice the nice entrances into the HOV for transitioning traffic during rush hour

Argetina is actually classified in the developed world according to the U.N. Human Development Index. It is ranked 34th most developed country in the world. Other countries ranked in South America: Chile - 37; Costa Rica - 47; Mexico - 53; Medium Development: Brazil - 63; Colombia - 69; Venezuela - 75; Equador - 82; Paraguay - 88; Guyana - 107; It is ranked the highest in South America. Reference System: Norway - 1; US - 10; UK - 15; Poland - 36; UAE - 41; China - 85; India -127

Here are some more pictures from New York City (as promised): The famous bull down by Wall Street: Central Park: Chrysler Building: Empire State Building Where George Washington gave the first Presidential Oath of the United States: The New York City Public Library: The Sony building: St. Patrick's Cathedral: Wall Street: Little Italy: The Plaza Hotel: View of downtown Manhattan from the top of the Empire State Building: The fountain (during the summer) at Rockefellar Center: City Hall: Something you don't see too often (New Amsterdam): Yankee Stadium: Times Square:

Here are some picturs I took of some postings of what is going to be rebuilt downtown: * more to come *

Here are some pictures from my most recent visit home: Radio City Music Hall: CitiCorp building (from the top of the rock): Empire State Building: Columbus Circle area: Downtown from the Staten Island Ferry: NYSE: Statue of Liberty from the Staten Island Ferry: Here is a picture of the Rockafellar Center Christmas Tree last winter: Wall Street decorated for Christmas: *more to come*

100.0 Mbps. My school claims to have the fastest internet second to the pentagon. I forgot the name of the network, but it's shared with a bunch of colleges and laboratories across the country to share research and data. So we also get it in the residence halls.

New York, of course. It is all in one: Cultural, political, and financial epicenter. When the stock market crashed in NYC in 1929, the whole world was affected. The United Nations is located in New York City, which almost every nation is now a part of. And tourists from all over the world go to New York City to see a broadway play, and was the center of the Harlem Rennaissance. Also, when you walk down a street in New York City, you see people of every walk of life. You have Chinatown, Little Italy, Little Brazil, as well as other areas that are predominantly one nationality/religion. It is a cultural melting pot.

I've never been to Houston, and I've lived in Atlanta for the past 3 years while I have attended school. Honestly, Atlanta is alright. The people definitely have this huge spirit about their city, but I don't see anything to brag about. The city wouldn't exist if it wasn't for Delta, and I personally don't like Delta and have been rejoicing since they have gone bankrupt and American can fly out of Atlanta with competitive prices now. Coca-Cola also has a strong influence in the city, and I'm a pepsi person, and you can't find Pepsi ANYWHERE. And everyone has a car because you need one in this city. That being said, you are dumb if you go out on any road in the metro atlanta area between the hours of 4 and 7 PM if you don't have to. However, I do like the skyline of Atlanta better than Houston. I like the way the downtown skyline kind of progressively gets taller as it gets closer to the center (the Westin).

NOTE: D.C. is not my favorite capital, but it's getting a bad rap, and I feel a need to defend it. I see a lot of comparisons between Washington D.C. and Paris (and other cities), but I do not think they can be classified together. Washington D.C. was constructed for the sole purpose of being the Nation's Capital. I'm not sure the order, but it used to be Philadelphia, then New York City, then maybe Philadelphia again, and then D.C. It was swamplands until they constructed the city. Other capital cities (especially european capitals) are also like the commercial center of their country as well. D.C. just functions as a political center. You can't compare the Louvre to the Smithsonian, because the Smithsonian isn't America's premier art museum. It actually isn't just an art museum. It is a great cultural center for everything in American History. It contains the oldest constitution in the world. It has the Air & Space Museum which is amazing. It also has the Hope Diamond in the Museum of Natural History. It also has a few museums that are amazing. Not to mention that all these museums are FREE, and the lines are much shorther than the Louvre. Also, downtown D.C. is kind of run-down. But every city has their slums. How large is Paris? Washington D.C. is only 10 miles by 10 miles (and actually much smaller because the river actually cuts it into about 2/3 of that). This makes the slums more noticeable because there isn't much space for them, so they are closer to the downtown area. And D.C. is dangerous? I don't remember D.C. having over a weeklong of rioting recently. And the city is much cleaner than Paris. It has several beautiful areas. The downtown area where all the government buildings are, is just a beautiful area. Monuments that are meant to commemorate a great human being or beings. Every monument means something. Paris has the Eiffel Tower (as previously mentioned) which represents nothing except a World's Fair. I'll give you the Arc de Triomphe, but everything else was built a symbol of the King's Power by the King himself. You have the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Monument, Vietnam Veteran's Memorial, Korean War Memorial, WWII Memorial (the newest one), Iwo Jima, President Kennedy, FDR Memorial, and Albert Einstein memorial, among probably others I can't remember. Even if you do not like the architecture, the history around you is just amazing. And if you go during March-April with the cherry blossoms in bloom, it is one of the most beautiful places on earth.

Originally posted by: Ebullient Washington, D.C. definately. It's so beautiful, like, and artest painted his masterpiece on a canvas of earth. (is that corny or what??) oh, and someone said that it was to post modern and a facimalie of Paris, which I totally disagree with. First of all, it's greek revival, not post modern, and second of all, it looks nothing like paris. When you walk through D.C., you can tell it was planned. It looks...new. Paris looks old. they are different! lol. The best part of D.C. are the parks, the monuments, the architecture, and the free museums. If you ever go, make sure to check out the botanical gardens. they are AMAZING.quote> You're right. It's not modeled after Paris. It's modeled after Versailles. Look at the similarities in the layout of the cities. They are almost identical.

Canberra, Australia. Even though I've never been there, I just love the city's design.

Building upward can also somewhat be viewed as a more sustainable solution to urban sprawl. With increasing population worldwide coupled with greenhouse gas emissions, building cities outwards is only going to perpetuate problems that currently exist. By centralizing sources of residences or jobs, you improve the efficiency of mass transit, since the principal behind mass transit is a common source of population moving towards a common destination. In the very near future, for the first time in human history, more than half of the world's population will live in urban areas. By 2050, 60% of the world's population will live in urban areas. While this thread is particularly about London, and Western European cities aren't showing the predicted growth that the rest of the world is showing, I guess it wouldn't really matter to London. As for the rest of the world, building up is a more sustainable practice than building outward. In 1950 there was one megacity (population above 10,000,000). Today there are about 10. By 2015 there will be over 20, and it will subsequently increase in the future. Most of this growth will occur in Asia, Africa, and Latin and South America, and a little bit in the U.S. (due to immigration, not birth rate as is the case with the rest of the world). So it is understandable that these cities are building upward in preparation for the near future.

Bolivia also is home to the premier Bus Rapid Transit system in the world! Although I have recently read about some negative implications stemming from the implementation of the system, it still was a significant system for mass transit around the world

I know of only two traffic circles on Long Island (there could be more, but I've never heard of them). They are fairly large (in size) for the U.S. at least. One is at Jones Beach State Park (the large parking lots in the north of the picture are for Jones Beach Ampitheater). The other one is out east in Riverhead. I remember my Driver's Ed teacher taking us out to the one in Jone's Beach and the girl driving had the car stopped inside the traffic circle for like 5 minutes before the driver's ed teacher asked what she was doing. She was too scared to merge and didn't really understand the concept.

Originally posted by: rodent1989 adpbns777, where do you go to school?quote> Georgia Tech and Duke87: I totally didn't even notice that the limit did not exist. Good job on catching that one!

I love geeky jokes. But then again I go to an engineering school. Here are some of my favorites: You might ben an engineer if... You have no life - and you can PROVE it mathematically. You laugh at jokes about math[aticians] You have to bring a jacket with you, in the middle of summer, because there's a wind-chill factor in the lab. When your professor asks you where your homework is, you claim to have accidentally determined its momentum so precisely, that according to Heisenberg it could be anywhere in the universe. You'll assume that a "horse" is a "sphere" in order to make the math easier The salesperson at Best Buy can't answer any of your questions You have a habit of destroying things in order to see how they work. If your IQ is bigger than your weight There are a ton of these, but these are my favorite because I find some truth in these when I walk around campus.

I really like the skyline of Sydney, Australia.

I'm 21 years old. I am from Long Island, NY, but I go to Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA. I'm studying to be a Civil Engineer with a concentration in Transportation Engineering. I graduate in December, and am planning on attending Graduate School at Georgia Tech as well.

Times Square in NYC, and Piccadilly Circus in London. I don't think I need to go into detail about why both of them are included. I like them only at night though. I love both cities, and have spent a good deal of time in both, and it kinds of unites to two cities for me.

I know someone already posted a picture of the Atlanta skyline, but I took this picture and think it's a really good one of the skyline. It's taken from the 10th floor of the Renaissance Hotel at dusk, and it is of downtown, taken from the north. P.S. I attached the picture as a file, and I've never done this before...so I hope it works. EDIT: I've now attached a picture of midtown Atlanta taken from Bobby Dodd Stadium at Georgia Tech. It's from a slight distance. I've figured out how to attached pictures now. This one is taken from the southwest of midtown atlanta. That new grayish-looking building is actually a lot bigger than this picture portrays. It's all glass, and at night, the building with the green pyramidal shaped roof perfectly reflects into the side of it. It is really cool looking. I don't have a picture of that though. So you'll just have to come to Atlanta to see it for your self.