Life in the fast lane: city life speeding up, says study
AFP, May, 2007
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LONDON (AFP) — It's official: city life is getting faster. Using residents' walking speed as an indicator of the pace of life, British research published Wednesday ranked Singapore, Copenhagen and Madrid as the world's most frenetic cities.
The study found that globally, people's walking speeds have increased by 10 percent over the last decade, with the biggest increases in the Far East.
In Singapore, walking pace rose by 30 percent and in Guangzhou, China, the figure was 20 percent.
But some cities usually noted for their intensity feature relatively low down the scale -- New York is rated eighth, London 12th and Tokyo 16th. The most laid-back places are Blantyre in Malawi and Manama, Bahrain.
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The research was carried out by Professor Richard Wiseman, of the University of Hertfordshire, in Hatfield, north of London, who measured the average time it took 35 adults in each city to ...
