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compared what is happening to New York to the
Venice and Jakarta are having. Venice is experiencing more
despite the construction of a $5.3 billion
of sea walls. Indonesia is building a new capital city from
because Jakarta is sinking. The United Nations has forecast that 70 per cent of the world's
will inhabit cities by 2050. Parsons said: "When you build a
and it gets full of people, you end up with
." He warned that New York City was "emblematic of a place that people migrate to and that
has a high concentration of construction." Increasing
will exacerbate problems for cities.
