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This is a list of notable mainland settlements that are inaccessible from the outside by automotive roads (roads built to carry civilian passenger motor vehicles). These settlements may have internal roads or paths but they lack roads connecting them to other places.
Devon Island, in the Canadian North, is the world's largest uninhabited island. Northeast Greenland National Park, which is the world's largest terrestrial protected area, has had a census population of 0 for many years since the only mine in the region closed. Nevertheless parts of this remote area can see seasonal use: 31 people and about 110 ...
Thomas Sieverts (born 8 June 1934 [1]) is a German architect and urban planner.He is the author of Zwischenstadt (1997; first published in English in 2000 as Cities without Cities: An interpretation of the Zwischenstadt), [2] [3] a book which addresses the decentralization of the compact historical European city and examines the new form of urbanity which has spread across the world ...
The World Without Us is a 2007 non-fiction book about what would happen to the natural and built environment if humans suddenly disappeared, written by American journalist Alan Weisman and published by St. Martin's Thomas Dunne Books. [1] It is a book-length expansion of Weisman's own February 2005 Discover article "Earth Without People". [2]
Hampi is a World Heritage Site within this town. Lakhpat was once a bustling port town at the mouth of Kori creek of Kutch. After the earthquake of 1819, the Indus River changed its course of flow resulting in the abandonment of the port by people. The town surrounded by a 7-kilometre-long (4.3 mi) fort wall now houses only a few hundred people ...
Both cities are part of the same metropolitan area Bolivia: Sucre: 259,388: Santa Cruz de la Sierra [1] 1,453,549: 7.1: La Paz is the de facto capital with the seat of government; it is in Bolivia's second most populous metropolitan area. Brazil: Brasília: 3,500,000: São Paulo: 12,252,023: 4.25
TORONTO – Win or lose, Karl-Anthony Towns isn't shy about answering postgame questions. Sometimes those answers can last for minutes at a time. But after the Timberwolves lost 125-102 to Toronto ...
Neza-Chalco-Ixta in Mexico City, is a Ciudad Perdida, rated as the world's largest mega-slum in 2006. The area extends towards the municipalities of Chimalhuacan , Los Reyes to the west of Ixtapaluca and South of Neza and Ecatepec de Morelos north of Neza in the metropolitan area periphery and with Santa Marta Acatitla in the Distrito Federal ...