A GOG 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Petronas Towers, Chewing Gum, Kiasu
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Part e: world cities in east and southeast asia. Between middle east and europe 40% of world trade go through it. In terms of global trade and connectivity to the world economy singapore is the most important city in. It is a city-state : independent country that consists of one city and its outlying areas. Three important city stats: monaco, vatican , singapore. Singapore 2nd most densely populated city in the world behind monaco. Marina bay sands resort most expensive hotel in the world. Has one of the biggest container ports in the world. The location of singapore right in-between eu and asia is reason. Singapore has created a near-utopian society where nobody wants anything and nobody complains(or, no one listens?) Food is cheap and plentiful because of imports are encouraged from all over the world. Almost all singaporeans live in homes they own because of a compulsory savings program, the central.
