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compared New York City to Venice and Jakarta. Venice is experiencing more
despite its new $5.3 billion
of sea walls. Indonesia is building a new
city from
because Jakarta is sinking. The United Nations forecast that 70 per cent of the world's
will live in cities by 2050. Dr Parsons said: "When you build a
and it gets full of people, you end up with
." He said New York was
of a place where many people move to and then has a high
of new buildings.