Model towns
Celebration, the town in Florida founded by Disney in the 1990s, has suffered its first murder and a suicide. Model towns have had mixed fortunes.
—New Lanark, near Glasgow, was built by industrialist and social reformer Robert Owen as a model for utopian socialism. It narrowly escaped demolition in the 1960s and is now a World Heritage Site.
—Chandigargh, India, was instituted by Nehru after partition as the modern face of India. It now has the highest per capita income of any Indian city, but it also has rising crime, recording 19 murders in 2007.
—Brasilia, built in the isolated centre of Brazil between 1957 and 1960, survived criticism to remain the country’s capital. But in common with other Brazilian cities, it has become surrounded by shanty towns.
Richer poverty
The official poverty line is defined as 60 per cent of median income. This is how the poverty line has shifted upwards for a couple with two children aged five to 14, after housing costs, in 2008/09 prices:
Weekly income
1994/95 £247
1996/97 £261
1998/99 £272
2000/01 £294
2002/03 £321
2004/05 £328
2006/07 £334
2008/09 £333
Source: Family Resources Survey, ONS
Shark attacks
A German woman was killed in a shark attack off the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
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