On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, "Peter Ross" <Peter.Ross@bogen.in-berlin.de> wrote:
Population in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million:
#2 Singapore #5 Australia #7 Japan #9 Korea
Without long research I know that a lot more than half of the Australians live in the state capitals and their surroundings.
In the inner urban areas of Tokyo there are car escalator systems for residential car parking. A system that lifts cars to stack them for greater parking density (basically high-rise parking without the ramps) can't be cheap, it's only practical in extremely densly populated areas with wealthy people. Visit Japan and look around, it's just not like Australia. Also I have never seen any part of Melbourne that has an apparent population density comparable to the Westerpark area of Amsterdam where I used to live (which wasn't unusually densly populated by European standards). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_area In terms of getting high speed net access to people cheaply, the suburban sprawl of Melbourne (which is defined as "metropolitan") is much more difficult and expensive than the large buildings with small apartments that are common in the more densly populated countries. Getting the NBN to me now will involve one fiber to my home. Getting it to me in Amsterdam if done intelligently would have involved one fiber to the apartment building which had four main apartments (one subdivided to give a total of 5) - it was a luxuary apartment building, the other buildings in the area had many more. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/