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Almost 180,000 people move into cities each day… And now, for the first time in human history, the majority of the world's population live in settlements. Urban settlements can be as large as megacities like Tokyo in Japan, with 35 million inhabitants… Or as small as the city of Canterbury in the United Kingdom, home to little more than 40,000 residents. And yet, they have many similarities.

Every urban settlement has a central business in its historic core. This trading district is always situated where several main roads meet, and is the primary location for shops, offices, restaurants and entertainment. High land value means few people live here. This is the main difference between the central business district and other urban zones.

During the Industrial Revolution, many towns experienced a massive influx of industry workers. These workers and their families needed , and so thousands of new houses were built, close together, in a grid-like pattern around factories. Today, with the decline of many traditional industries, many of these houses and factories have been replaced by wasteland and cheap housing.

With a lack of employment, and low-value housing, many inner city areas are characterised by urban decay, unemployment and crime. Wealthier urban residents can choose a suburban lifestyle on the outskirts of the city. Suburban houses are often bigger, with gardens, garages and areas of open space.

Beyond suburbia lies the rural-urban fringe – the transition zone between town and countryside – commonly dotted with business parks, shopping centres, hotels and in many cases, airports. Remarkably, urban settlements follow this basic pattern in almost every town and city in the developed world… Transcending size, culture and climate.

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Olympic games and Kazakhstan

July 17 at 11:35 am

 Taufik KARIMOV, a political analyst

On the eve of the main sporting event of the quadrennial year-the London Olympics-let's remember the achievements of Kazakhstani athletes at the Olympic games of our time.

Participation of Kazakhstani athletes in the Olympic games of our time should be divided into two parts – first as part of the USSR national team, and then, after independence, as part of the national team under its national flag.

However, first I want to warn readers – here you will see some discrepancies with the generally accepted data. For example, it is believed that for the first time Kazakhstan took part in the Olympics in 1956, in my opinion – in 1952 (then, by the way, the first medal was won, and not in 1960, as it is believed).

The first Olympic champion-Kazakh in official sources is called the wrestler Zhaksylyk USHKEMPIROV (1980), although in fact this is Alzhan ZHARMUKHAMEDOV (1972). Without detracting from the merits of our outstanding athlete, we just note that Ushkempirov is indeed the first Kazakh Olympic champion who represented Kazakhstan directly. And Kazakh Zharmukhamedov, who became the champion of the Munich Olympics in the Soviet basketball team, then lived in Moscow and played for CSKA. Then we all lived in a single state called the USSR, and it often happened that the best athletes, and not only from Kazakhstan, played for other Union republics. However, in order