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text: Meaning[edit]

text: A city is distinguished from other human settlements by its relatively great size, but also by its functions and its special symbolic status, which may be conferred by a central authority. The term can also refer either to the physical streets and buildings of the city or to the collection of people who dwell there, and can be used in a general sense to mean urban rather than rural territory.[13][14]

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text: A variety of definitions, invoking population, population density, number of dwellings, economic function, and infrastructure, are used in national censuses to classify populations as urban. Common population definitions for a city range between 1,500 and 50,000 people, with most states using a minimum between 1,500 and 5000 inhabitants.[15][16] However, some jurisdictions set no such minimums.[17] In others, such as in the United Kingdom, city status is awarded on local criteria. According to the "functional definition" a city is not distinguished by size alone, but also by the role it plays within a larger political context. Cities serve as administrative, commercial, religious, and cultural hubs for their larger surrounding areas.[18][19]

text: The presence of a literate elite is sometimes included in the definition.[20] A typical city has professional administrators, regulations, and some form of taxation (food and other necessities or means to trade for them) to feed the government workers. (This arrangement contrasts with the more typically horizontal relationships in a tribe or village accomplishing common goals through informal agreements between neighbors, or through leadership of a chief.) The governments may be based on heredity, religion, military power, work projects such as canal building, food distribution, land ownership, agriculture, commerce, manufacturing, finance, or a combination of these. Societies that live in cities are often called civilizations.

text: The word city and the related civilization come, via Old French, from the Latin root civitas, originally meaning citizenship or community member and eventually coming to correspond with urbs, meaning city in a more physical sense.[13] The Roman civitas was closely linked with the Greek "polis" – another common root appearing in English words such as metropolis.[21]

text: Geography[edit]

text: Urban geography deals both with cities in their larger context and with their internal structure.[25]

text: Site[edit]

text: Town siting has varied through history according to natural, technological, economic, and military contexts. Access to water has long been a major factor in city placement and growth, and despite exceptions enabled by the advent of rail transport in the nineteenth century, through the present most of the world's urban population lives near the coast or on a river.[26]

text: Urban areas as a rule cannot produce their own food and therefore must develop some relationship with a hinterland which sustains them.[27] Only in special cases such as mining towns which play a vital role in long-distance trade, are cities disconnected from the countryside which feeds them.[28] Thus, centrality within a productive region influences siting, as economic forces would in theory favor the creation of market places in optimal mutually reachable locations.[29]

text: Center[edit]

text: The vast majority of cities have a central area containing buildings with special economic, political, and religious significance. Archaeologists refer to this area by the Greek term temenos or if fortified as a citadel.[30] These spaces historically reflect and amplify the city's centrality and importance to its wider sphere of influence.[29] Today cities have a city center or downtown, sometimes coincident with a central business district.

text: Public space[edit]

text: Cities typically have public spaces where anyone can go. These include privately owned spaces open to the public as well as forms of public land such as public domain and the commons. Western philosophy since the time of the Greek agora has considered physical public space as the substrate of the symbolic public sphere.[31][32] Public art adorns (or disfigures) public spaces. Parks and other natural sites within cities provide residents with relief from the hardness and regularity of typical built environments.

text: Internal structure[edit]

text: Urban structure generally follows one or more basic patterns: geomorphic, radial, concentric, rectilinear, and curvilinear. Physical environment generally constrains the form in which a city is built. If located on a mountainside, it may rely on terraces and winding roads. It may be adapted to its means of subsistence (e.g. agriculture or fishing). And it may be set up for optimal defense given the surrounding landscape.[33] Beyond these "geomorphic" features, cities can develop internal patterns, due to natural growth or to city planning.

text: In a radial structure, main roads converge on a central point. This form could evolve from successive growth over a long time, with concentric traces of town walls and citadels marking older city boundaries. In more recent history, such forms were supplemented by ring roads moving traffic around the outskirts of a town. Dutch cities such as Amsterdam and Haarlem are structured as a central square surrounded by concentric canals marking every expansion. In cities such as and also Moscow, this pattern is still clearly visible.

text: A system of rectilinear city streets and land plots, known as the grid plan, has been used for millennia in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The Indus Valley Civilisation built Mohenjo-Daro, Harappa and other cities on a grid pattern, using ancient principles described by Kautilya, and aligned with the compass points.[34][18][35][36] The ancient Greek city of Priene exemplifies a grid plan with specialized districts used across the Hellenistic Mediterranean.

text: Urban areas[edit]

text: Urban-type settlement extends far beyond the traditional boundaries of the city proper[37] in a form of development sometimes described critically as urban sprawl.[38] Decentralization and dispersal of city functions (commercial, industrial, residential, cultural, political) has transformed the very meaning of the term and has challenged geographers seeking to classify territories according to an urban-rural binary.[16]

text: Metropolitan areas include suburbs and exurbs organized around the needs of commuters, and sometimes edge cities characterized by a degree of economic and political independence. (In the USA these are grouped into metropolitan statistical areas for purposes of demography and marketing.) Some cities are now part of a continuous urban landscape called urban agglomeration, conurbation, or megalopolis (exemplified by the BosWash corridor of the Northeastern United States.)[39]

text: History[edit]

text: Cities, characterized by population density, symbolic function, and urban planning, have existed for thousands of years. In the conventional view, civilization and the city both followed from the development of agriculture, which enabled production of surplus food, and thus a social division of labour (with concomitant social stratification) and trade.[40][41] Early cities often featured granaries, sometimes within a temple.[42] A minority viewpoint considers that cities may have arisen without agriculture, due to alternate means of subsistence (fishing),[43] to use as communal seasonal shelters,[44] to their value as bases for defensive and offensive military organization,[45][46] or to their inherent economic function.[47][48][49] Cities played a crucial role in the establishment of political power over an area, and ancient leaders such as Alexander the Great founded and created them with zeal.[50]

text: Ancient times[edit]

text: Jericho and Çatalhöyük, dated to the eighth millennium BC, are among the earliest cities known to archaeologists.[44][51]

text: In the fourth and third millennium BC, complex civilizations flourished in the river valleys of Mesopotamia, India, China, and Egypt. Excavations in these areas have found the ruins of cities geared variously towards trade, politics, or religion. Some had large, dense populations, but others carried out urban activities in the realms of politics or religion without having large associated populations. Among the early Old World cities, Mohenjo-daro of the Indus Valley Civilization in present-day Pakistan, existing from about 2600 BC, was one of the largest, with a population of 50,000 or more and a sophisticated sanitation system.[52] China's planned cities were constructed according to sacred principles to act as celestial microcosms.[53] The Ancient Egyptian cities known physically by archaeologists are not extensive.[18] They include (known by their Arab names) El Lahun, a workers' town associated with the pyramid of Senusret II, and the religious city Amarna built by Akhenaten and abandoned. These sites appear planned in a highly regimented and stratified fashion, with a minimalistic grid of rooms for the workers and increasingly more elaborate housing available for higher classes.[54]

text: In Mesopotamia, the civilization of Sumer, followed by Assyria and Babylon, gave rise to numerous cities, governed by kings and fostering multiple languages written in cuneiform.[55] The Phoenician trading empire, flourishing around the turn of the first millennium BC, encompassed numerous cities extending from Tyre, Cydon, and Byblos to Carthage and Cádiz.

text: In the following centuries, independent city-states of Greece developed the polis, an association of male landowning citizens who collectively constituted the city.[56] The agora, meaning "gathering place" or "assembly", was the center of athletic, artistic, spiritual and political life of the polis.[57] Rome's rise to power brought its population to one million. Under the authority of its empire, Rome transformed and founded many cities (coloniae), and with them brought its principles of urban architecture, design, and society.[58]

text: In the ancient Americas, early urban traditions developed in the Andes and Mesoamerica. In the Andes, the first urban centers developed in the Norte Chico civilization, Chavin and Moche cultures, followed by major cities in the Huari, Chimu and Inca cultures. The Norte Chico civilization included as many as 30 major population centers in what is now the Norte Chico region of north-central coastal Peru. It is the oldest known civilization in the Americas, flourishing between the 30th century BC and the 18th century BC.[59] Mesoamerica saw the rise of early urbanism in several cultural regions, beginning with the Olmec and spreading to the Preclassic Maya, the Zapotec of Oaxaca, and Teotihuacan in central Mexico. Later cultures such as the Aztec drew on these earlier urban traditions.

text: Jenné-Jeno, located in present-day Mali and dating to the third century BC, lacked monumental architecture and a distinctive elite social class—but nevertheless had specialized production and relations with a hinterland.[60] Pre-Arabic trade contacts probably existed between Jenné-Jeno and North Africa.[61] Other early urban centers in sub-Saharan Africa, dated to around 500 AD, include Awdaghust, Kumbi-Saleh the ancient capital of Ghana, and Maranda a center located on a trade route between Egypt and Gao.[62]

text: In the first millennium AD, Angkor in the Khmer Empire grew into one of the most extensive cities in the world[63][64] and may have supported up to one million people.[65]

text: Middle Ages[edit]

text: In the remnants of the Roman Empire, cities of late antiquity gained independence but soon lost population and importance. The locus of power in the West shifted to Constantinople and to the ascendant Islamic civilization with its major cities Baghdad, Cairo, and Córdoba.[66] From the 9th through the end of the 12th century, Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire, was the largest and wealthiest city in Europe, with a population approaching 1 million.[67][68] The Ottoman Empire gradually gained control over many cities in the Mediterranean area, including Constantinople in 1453.

text: By the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, some cities become powerful states, taking surrounding areas under their control or establishing extensive maritime empires. In Italy medieval communes developed into city-states including the Republic of Venice and the Republic of Genoa. In Northern Europe, cities including Lübeck and Bruges formed the Hanseatic League for collective defense and commerce. Their power was later challenged and eclipsed by the Dutch commercial cities of Ghent, Ypres, and Amsterdam.[69] Similar phenomena existed elsewhere, as in the case of Sakai, which enjoyed a considerable autonomy in late medieval Japan.

text: Early modern[edit]

text: In the West, nation-states became the dominant unit of political organization following the Peace of Westphalia in the seventeenth century.[70][71] Western Europe's larger capitals (London and Paris) benefited from the growth of commerce following the emergence of an Atlantic trade. However, most towns remained small.

text: During the Spanish colonization of the Americas the old Roman city concept was extensively used. Cities were founded in the middle of the newly conquered territories, and were bound to several laws regarding administration, finances and urbanism.

text: Industrial age[edit]

text: The growth of modern industry from the late 18th century onward led to massive urbanization and the rise of new great cities, first in Europe and then in other regions, as new opportunities brought huge numbers of migrants from rural communities into urban areas.

text: England led the way as London became the capital of a world empire and cities across the country grew in locations strategic for manufacturing.[72] In the United States from 1860 to 1910, the introduction of railroads reduced transportation costs, and large manufacturing centers began to emerge, fueling migration from rural to city areas.

text: Industrialized cities became deadly places to live, due to health problems resulting from overcrowding, occupational hazards of industry, contaminated water and air, poor sanitation, and communicable diseases such as typhoid and cholera. Factories and slums emerged as regular features of the urban landscape.[73]

text: Post-industrial age[edit]

text: In the second half of the twentieth century, deindustrialization (or "economic restructuring") in the West led to poverty, homelessness, and urban decay in formerly prosperous cities. America's "Steel Belt" became a "Rust Belt" and cities such as Detroit, Michigan, and Gary, Indiana began to shrink, contrary to the global trend of massive urban expansion.[74] Such cities have shifted with varying success into the service economy and public-private partnerships, with concomitant gentrification, uneven revitalization efforts, and selective cultural development.[75] Under the Great Leap Forward and subsequent five-year plans continuing today, the People's Republic of China has undergone concomitant urbanization and industrialization and to become the world's leading manufacturer.[76][77]

text: Amidst these economic changes, high technology and instantaneous telecommunication enable select cities to become centers of the knowledge economy.[78][79][80] A new smart city paradigm, supported by institutions such as the RAND Corporation and IBM, is bringing computerized surveillance, data analysis, and governance to bear on cities and city-dwellers.[81] Some companies are building brand new masterplanned cities from scratch on greenfield sites.

text: Urbanization[edit]

text: Urbanization is the process of migration from rural into urban areas, driven by various political, economic, and cultural factors. Until the 18th century, an equilibrium existed between the rural agricultural population and towns featuring markets and small-scale manufacturing.[82][83] With the agricultural and industrial revolutions urban population began its unprecedented growth, both through migration and through demographic expansion. In England the proportion of the population living in cities jumped from 17% in 1801 to 72% in 1891.[84] In 1900, 15% of the world population lived in cities.[85] The cultural appeal of cities also plays a role in attracting residents.[86]

text: Urbanization rapidly spread across the Europe and the Americas and since the 1950s has taken hold in Asia and Africa as well. The Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, reported in 2014 that for the first time more than half of the world population lives in cities.[87][a]

text: Latin America is the most urban continent, with four fifths of its population living in cities, including one fifth of the population said to live in shantytowns (favelas, villas miserias, etc.).[95] Batam, Indonesia, Mogadishu, Somalia, Xiamen, China and Niamey, Niger, are considered among the world's fastest-growing cities, with annual growth rates of 5–8%.[96] In general, the more developed countries of the "Global North" remain more urbanized than the less developed countries of the "Global South"—but the difference continues to shrink because urbanization is happening faster in the latter group. Asia is home to by far the greatest absolute number of city-dwellers: over two billion and counting.[83] The UN predicts an additional 2.5 billion citydwellers (and 300 million fewer countrydwellers) worldwide by 2050, with 90% of urban population expansion occurring in Asia and Africa.[87][97]

text: Megacities, cities with population in the multi-millions, have proliferated into the dozens, arising especially in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.[98][99] Economic globalization fuels the growth of these cities, as new torrents of foreign capital arrange for rapid industrialization, as well as relocation of major businesses from Europe and North America, attracting immigrants from near and far.[100] A deep gulf divides rich and poor in these cities, with usually contain a super-wealthy elite living in gated communities and large masses of people living in substandard housing with inadequate infrastructure and otherwise poor conditions.[101]

text: Cities around the world have expanded physically as they grow in population, with increases in their surface extent, with the creation of high-rise buildings for residential and commercial use, and with development underground.[102][103]

text: Urbanization can create rapid demand for water resources management, as formerly good sources of freshwater become overused and polluted, and the volume of sewage begins to exceed manageable levels.[104]

text: Government[edit]

text: Local government of cities takes different forms including prominently the municipality (especially in England, in the United States, in India, and in other British colonies; legally, the municipal corporation;[105] municipio in Spain and in Portugal, and, along with municipalidad, in most former parts of the Spanish and Portuguese empires) and the commune (in France and in Chile; or comune in Italy).

text: The chief official of the city has the title of mayor. Whatever their true degree of political authority, the mayor typically acts as the figurehead or personification of their city.[106]

text: City governments have authority to make laws governing activity within cities, while its jurisdiction is generally considered subordinate (in ascending order) to state/provincial, national, and perhaps international law. This hierarchy of law is not enforced rigidly in practice—for example in conflicts between municipal regulations and national principles such as constitutional rights and property rights.[71] Legal conflicts and issues arise more frequently in cities than elsewhere due to the bare fact of their greater density.[108] Modern city governments thoroughly regulate everyday life in many dimensions, including public and personal health, transport, burial, resource use and extraction, recreation, and the nature and use of buildings. Technologies, techniques, and laws governing these areas—developed in cities—have become ubiquitous in many areas.[109] Municipal officials may be appointed from a higher level of government or elected locally.[110]

text: Municipal services[edit]

text: Cities typically provide municipal services such as education, through school systems; policing, through police departments; and firefighting, through fire departments; as well as the city's basic infrastructure. These are provided more or less routinely, in a more or less equal fashion.[111][112] Responsibility for administration usually falls on the city government, though some services may be operated by a higher level of government,[113] while others may be privately run.[114] Armies may assume responsibility for policing cities in states of domestic turmoil such as America's King assassination riots of 1968.

text: Finance[edit]

text: The traditional basis for municipal finance is local property tax levied on real estate within the city. Local government can also collect revenue for services, or by leasing land that it owns.[115] However, financing municipal services, as well as urban renewal and other development projects, is a perennial problem, which cities address through appeals to higher governments, arrangements with the private sector, and techniques such as privatization (selling services to into the private sector), corporatization (formation of quasi-private municipally-owned corporations), and financialization (packaging city assets into tradable financial instruments and derivatives). This situation has become acute in deindustrialized cities and in cases where businesses and wealthier citizens have moved outside of city limits and therefore beyond the reach of taxation.[116][117][118][119] Cities in search of ready cash increasingly resort to the municipal bond, essentially a loan with interest and a repayment date.[120] City governments have also begun to use tax increment financing, in which a development project is financed by loans based on future tax revenues which it is expected to yield.[119] Under these circumstances, creditors and consequently city governments place a high importance on city credit ratings.[121]

text: Governance[edit]

text: Governance includes government but refers to a wider domain of social control functions implemented by many actors including nongovernmental organizations.[122] The impact of globalization and the role of multinational corporations in local governments worldwide, has led to a shift in perspective on urban governance, away from the "urban regime theory" in which a coalition of local interests functionally govern, toward a theory of outside economic control, widely associated in academics with the philosophy of neoliberalism.[123] In the neoliberal model of governance, public utilities are privatized, industry is deregulated, and corporations gain the status of governing actors—as indicated by the power they wield in public-private partnerships and over business improvement districts, and in the expectation of self-regulation through corporate social responsibility. The biggest investors and real estate developers act as the city's de facto urban planners.[124]

text: The related concept of good governance places more emphasis on the state, with the purpose of assessing urban governments for their suitability for development assistance.[125] The concepts of governance and good governance are especially invoked in the emergent megacities, where international organizations consider existing governments inadequate for their large populations.[126]

text: Urban planning[edit]

text: Urban planning, the application of forethought to city design, involves optimizing land use, transportation, utilities, and other basic systems, in order to achieve certain objectives. Urban planners and scholars have proposed overlapping theories as ideals for how plans should be formed. Planning tools, beyond the original design of the city itself, include public capital investment in infrastructure and land-use controls such as zoning. The continuous process of comprehensive planning involves identifying general objectives as well as collecting data to evaluate progress and inform future decisions.[128][129]

text: Government, as the ultimate wielder of force is legally the final authority on planning but in practice the process involves both public and private elements. The legal principle of eminent domain is used by government to divest citizens of their property in cases where its use is required for a project.[129] Planning often involves tradeoffs—decisions in which some stand to gain and some to lose—and thus is closely connected to the prevailing political situation.[130]

text: The history of urban planning dates to some of the earliest known cities, especially in the Indus Valley and Mesoamerican civilizations, which built their cities on grids and apparently zoned different areas for different purposes.[18][131] The effects of planning, ubiquitous in today's world, can be seen most clearly in the layout of planned communities, fully designed prior to construction, often with consideration for interlocking physical, economic, and cultural systems.

text: Society[edit]

text: Social structure[edit]

text: Urban society is typically stratified. Spatially, cities are formally or informally segregated along ethnic, economic and racial lines. People living relatively close together may live, work, and play, in separate areas, and associate with different people, forming ethnic or lifestyle enclaves or, in areas of concentrated poverty, ghettoes. While in the USA and elsewhere poverty became associated with the inner city, in France it has become associated with the banlieues, areas of urban development which surround the city proper. Meanwhile, across Europe and North America, the racially white majority is empirically the most segregated group. Suburbs in the west, and, increasingly, gated communities and other forms of "privatopia" around the world, allow local elites to self-segregate into secure and exclusive neighborhoods.[132]

text: Landless urban workers, contrasted with peasants and known as the proletariat, form a growing stratum of society in the age of urbanization. In Marxist doctrine, the proletariat will inevitably revolt against the bourgeoisie as their ranks swell with disenfranchised and disaffected people lacking all stake in the status quo.[133] The global urban proletariat of today, however, generally lacks the status as factory workers which in the nineteenth century provided access to the means of production.[134]

text: Economics[edit]

text: Historically, cities rely on rural areas for intensive farming to yield surplus crops, in exchange for which they provide money, political administration, manufactured goods, and culture.[27][28] Urban economics tends to analyze larger agglomerations, stretching beyond city limits, in order to reach a more complete understanding of the local labor market.[135]

text: As hubs of trade cities have long been home to retail commerce and consumption through the interface of shopping. In the 20th century, department stores using new techniques of advertising, public relations, decoration, and design, transformed urban shopping areas into fantasy worlds encouraging self-expression and escape through consumerism.[136][137]

text: In general, the density of cities expedites commerce and facilitates knowledge spillovers, helping people and firms exchange information and generate new ideas.[138][139] A thicker labor market allows for better skill matching between firms and individuals. Population density enables also sharing of common infrastructure and production facilities, however in very dense cities, increased crowding and waiting times may lead to some negative effects.[140]

text: Although manufacturing fueled the growth of cities, many now rely on a tertiary or service economy. The services in question range from tourism, hospitality, entertainment, housekeeping and prostitution to grey-collar work in law, finance, and administration.[75][141]

text: Culture and communications[edit]

text: Cities are typically hubs for education and the arts, supporting universities, museums, temples, and other cultural institutions.[19] They feature impressive displays of architecture ranging from small to enormous and ornate to brutal; skyscrapers, providing thousands of offices or homes within a small footprint, and visible from miles away, have become iconic urban features.[142] Cultural elites tend to live in cities, bound together by shared cultural capital, and themselves playing some role in governance.[143] By virtue of their status as centers of culture and literacy, cities can be described as the locus of civilization, world history, and social change.[144][145]

text: Density makes for effective mass communication and transmission of news, through heralds, printed proclamations, newspapers, and digital media. These communication networks, though still using cities as hubs, penetrate extensively into all populated areas. In the age of rapid communication and transportation, commentators have described urban culture as nearly ubiquitous[16][146][147] or as no longer meaningful.[148] At the same time hallmarks of rural life may appear in the midst of the city, as in the case of urban agriculture.[citation needed]

text: Today, a city's promotion of its cultural activities dovetails with place branding and city marketing, public diplomacy techniques used to inform development strategy; to attract businesses, investors, residents, and tourists; and to create a shared identity and sense of place within the metropolitan area.[149][150][151][152] Physical inscriptions, plaques, and monuments on display physically transmit a historical context for urban places.[153] Some cities, such as Jerusalem, Mecca, and Rome have indelible religious status and for hundreds of years have attracted pilgrims. Patriotic tourists visit Agra to see the Taj Mahal, or New York City to visit the World Trade Center. Elvis lovers visit Memphis to pay their respects at Graceland.[154] Place brands (which include place satisfaction and place loyalty) have great economic value (comparable to the value of commodity brands) because of their influence on the decision-making process of people thinking about doing business in—"purchasing" (the brand of)—a city.[152]

text: Bread and circuses among other forms of cultural appeal, attract and entertain the masses.[86][155] Sports also play a major role in city branding and local identity formation.[156] Cities go to considerable lengths in competing to host the Olympic Games, which bring global attention and tourism.[157]

text: Warfare[edit]

text: Cities play a crucial strategic role in warfare due to their economic, demographic, symbolic, and political centrality. For the same reasons, they are targets in asymmetric warfare. Many cities throughout history were founded under military auspices, a great many have incorporated fortifications, and military principles continue to influence urban design.[158] Indeed, war may have served as the social rationale and economic basis for the very earliest cities.[45][46]

text: Powers engaged in geopolitical conflict have established fortified settlements as part of military strategies, as in the case of garrison towns, America's Strategic Hamlet Program during the Vietnam War, and Israeli settlements in Palestine.[159] While occupying the Philippines, the US Army ordered local people concentrated into cities and towns, in order to isolate committed insurgents and battle freely against them in the countryside.[160][161]

text: During World War II, national governments on occasion declared certain cities open, effectively surrendering them to an advancing enemy in order to avoid damage and bloodshed. Urban warfare proved decisive, however, in the Battle of Stalingrad, where Soviet forces repulsed German occupiers, with extreme casualties and destruction. In an era of low-intensity conflict and rapid urbanization, cities have become sites of long-term conflict waged both by foreign occupiers and by local governments against insurgency.[134][162] Such warfare, known as counterinsurgency, involves techniques of surveillance and psychological warfare as well as close combat,[163] functionally extends modern urban crime prevention, which already uses concepts such as defensible space.[164]

text: Although capture is the more common objective, warfare has in some cases spelt complete destruction for a city. Mesopotamian tablets and ruins attest to such destruction,[165] as does the Latin motto Carthago delenda est.[166][167] Since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and throughout the Cold War, nuclear strategists continued to contemplate the use of "countervalue" targeting: crippling an enemy by annihilating its valuable cities, rather than aiming primarily at its military forces.[168][169]

text: Infrastructure[edit]

text: Urban infrastructure involves various physical networks and spaces necessary for transportation, water use, energy, recreation, and public functions.[170] Infrastructure carries a high initial cost in fixed capital (pipes, wires, plants, vehicles, etc.) but lower marginal costs and thus positive economies of scale.[171] Because of the higher barriers to entry, these networks have been classified as natural monopolies, meaning that economic logic favors control of each network by a single organization, public or private.[104][172][b]

text: Infrastructure in general (if not every infrastructure project) plays a vital role in a city's capacity for economic activity and expansion, underpinning the very survival of the city’s inhabitants, as well as technological, commercial, industrial, and social activities.[170][171] Structurally, many infrastructure systems take the form of networks with redundant links and multiple pathways, so that the system as a whole continue to operate even if parts of it fail.[172] The particulars of a city’s infrastructure systems have historical path dependence because new development must build from what exists already.[171]

text: Megaprojects such as the construction of airports, power plants, and railways require large upfront investments and thus tend to require funding from national government or the private sector.[175][172] Privatization may also extend to all levels of infrastructure construction and maintenance.[176]

text: Urban infrastructure ideally serves all residents equally but in practice may prove uneven—with, in some cities, clear first-class and second-class alternatives.[112][177][104]

text: Utilities[edit]

text: Public utilities (literally, useful things with general availability) include basic and essential infrastructure networks, chiefly concerned with the supply of water, electricity, and telecommunications capability to the populace.[178]

text: Sanitation, necessary for good health in crowded conditions, requires water supply and waste management as well as individual hygiene. Urban water systems include principally a water supply network and a network for wastewater including sewage and stormwater. Historically, either local governments or private companies have administered urban water supply, with a tendency toward government water supply in the 20th century and a tendency toward private operation at the turn of the twenty-first.[104][c] The market for private water services is dominated by two French companies, Veolia Water (formerly Vivendi) and Engie (formerly Suez), said to hold 70% of all water contracts worldwide.[104][180]

text: Modern urban life relies heavily on the energy transmitted through electricity for the operation of electric machines (from household appliances to industrial machines to now-ubiquitous electronic systems used in communications, business, and government) and for traffic lights, streetlights and indoor lighting. Cities rely to a lesser extent on hydrocarbon fuels such as gasoline and natural gas for transportation, heating, and cooking. Telecommunications infrastructure such as telephone lines and coaxial cables also traverse cities, forming dense networks for mass and point-to-point communications.[181]

text: Transportation[edit]

text: Because cities rely on specialization and an economic system based on wage labour, their inhabitants must have the ability to regularly travel between home, work, commerce, and entertainment.[182] Citydwellers travel foot or by wheel on roads and walkways, or use special rapid transit systems based on underground, overground, and elevated rail. Cities also rely on long-distance transportation (truck, rail, and airplane) for economic connections with other cities and rural areas.[183]

text: Historically, city streets were the domain of horses and their riders and pedestrians, who only sometimes had sidewalks and special walking areas reserved for them.[184] In the west, bicycles or (velocipedes), efficient human-powered machines for short- and medium-distance travel,[185] enjoyed a period of popularity at the beginning of the twentieth century before the rise of automobiles.[186] Soon after, they gained a more lasting foothold in Asian and African cities under European influence.[187] In western cities, industrializing, expanding, and electrifying at this time, public transit systems and especially streetcars enabled urban expansion as new residential neighborhoods sprung up along transit lines and workers rode to and from work downtown.[183][188]

text: Since the mid-twentieth century, cities have relied heavily on motor vehicle transportation, with major implications for their layout, environment, and aesthetics.[189] (This transformation occurred most dramatically in the USA—where corporate and governmental policies favored automobile transport systems—and to a lesser extent in Europe.)[183][188] The rise of personal cars accompanied the expansion of urban economic areas into much larger metropolises, subsequently creating ubiquitous traffic issues with accompanying construction of new highways, wider streets, and alternative walkways for pedestrians.[190][191][192][150]

text: However, severe traffic jams still occur regularly in cities around the world, as private car ownership and urbanization continue to increase, overwhelming existing urban street networks.[115]

text: The urban bus system, the world's most common form of public transport, uses a network of scheduled routes to move people through the city, alongside cars, on the roads.[193] Economic function itself also became more decentralized as concentration became impractical and employers relocated to more car-friendly locations (including edge cities).[183] Some cities have introduced bus rapid transit systems which include exclusive bus lanes and other methods for prioritizing bus traffic over private cars.[115][194] Many big American cities still operate conventional public transit by rail, as exemplified by the ever-popular New York City Subway system. Rapid transit is widely used in Europe and has increased in Latin America and Asia.[115]

text: Walking and cycling ("non-motorized transport") enjoy increasing favor (more pedestrian zones and bike lanes) in American and Asian urban transportation planning, under the influence of such trends as the Healthy Cities movement, the drive for sustainable development, and the idea of a carfree city.[115][195][196] Techniques such as road space rationing and road use charges have been introduced to limit urban car traffic.[115]

text: Housing[edit]

text: Housing of residents presents one of the major challenges every city must face. Adequate housing entails not only physical shelters but also the physical systems necessary to sustain life and economic activity.[197] Home ownership represents status and a modicum of economic security, compared to renting which may consume much of the income of low-wage urban workers. Homelessness, or lack of housing, is a challenged currently faced by millions of people in countries rich and poor.[198]

text: Ecology[edit]

text: Urban ecosystems, influenced as they are by the density of human buildings and activities differ considerably from those of their rural surroundings. Anthropogenic buildings and waste, as well as cultivation in gardens, create physical and chemical environments which have no equivalents in wilderness, in some cases enabling exceptional biodiversity. They provide homes not only for immigrant humans but also for immigrant plants, bringing about interactions between species which never previously encountered each other. They introduce frequent disturbances (construction, walking) to plant and animal habitats, creating opportunities for recolonization and thus favoring young ecosystems with r-selected species dominant. On the whole, urban ecosystems are less complex and productive than others, due to the diminished absolute amount of biological interactions.[199][200][201][202]

text: Typical urban fauna include insects (especially ants), rodents (mice, rats), and birds, as well as cats and dogs (domesticated and feral). Large predators are scarce.[201]

text: Cities generate considerable ecological footprints, locally and at longer distances, due to concentrated populations and technological activities. From one perspective, cities are not ecologically sustainable due to their resource needs. From another, proper management may be able to ameliorate a city's ill effects.[203][204] Air pollution arises from various forms of combustion,[205] including fireplaces, wood or coal-burning stoves, other heating systems,[206] and internal combustion engines. Industrialized cities, and today third-world megacities, are notorious for veils of smog (industrial haze) which envelop them, posing a chronic threat to the health of their millions of inhabitants.[207] Urban soil contains higher concentrations of heavy metals (especially lead, copper, and nickel) and has lower pH than soil in comparable wilderness.[201]

text: Modern cities are known for creating their own microclimates, due to concrete, asphalt, and other artificial surfaces, which heat up in sunlight and channel rainwater into underground ducts. The temperature in New York City exceeds nearby rural temperatures by an average of 2–3 °C and at times 5–10 °C differences have been recorded. This effect varies nonlinearly with population changes (independently of the city's physical size).[201][208] Aerial particulates increase rainfall by 5–10%. Thus, urban areas experience unique climates, with earlier flowering and later leaf dropping than in nearby country.[201]

text: Poor and working-class people face disproportionate exposure to environmental risks (known as environmental racism when intersecting also with racial segregation). For example, within the urban microclimate, less-vegetated poor neighborhoods bear more of the heat (but have fewer means of coping with it).[209]

text: World city system[edit]

text: As the world becomes more closely linked through economics, politics, technology, and culture (a process called globalization), cities have come to play a leading role in transnational affairs, exceeding the limitations of international relations conducted by national governments.[210][211][212] This phenomenon, resurgent today, can be traced back to the Silk Road, Phoenicia, and the Greek city-states, through the Hanseatic League and other alliances of cities.[213][139][214] Today the information economy based on high-speed internet infrastructure enables instantaneous telecommunication around the world, effectively eliminating the distance between cities for the purposes of stock markets and other high-level elements of the world economy, as well as personal communications and mass media.[215]

text: Global city[edit]

text: A global city, also known as a world city, is a prominent centre of trade, banking, finance, innovation, and markets. Saskia Sassen used the term "global city" in 1991 to refer to a city's power, status, and cosmopolitanism, rather than to its size. Following this view of cities, it is possible to rank the world's cities hierarchically.[216] London, New York City, Paris, and Tokyo form the capstone of the global hierarchy, exerting command and control through their economic and political influence. Global cities may have reached their status due to early transition to post-industrialism[217] or through inertia which has enabled them to maintain their dominance from the industrial era.[218] This type of ranking exemplifies an emerging discourse in which cities, considered variations on the same ideal type, must compete with each other globally to achieve prosperity.[157][150]

text: Critics of the notion point to the different realms of power and interchange. The term "global city" is heavily influenced by economic factors and, thus, may not account for places that are otherwise significant. Paul James, for example argues that the term is "reductive and skewed" in its focus on financial systems.[219]

text: Multinational corporations and banks make their headquarters in global cities and conduct much of their business within this context.[220] American firms dominate the international markets for law and engineering and maintain branches in the biggest foreign global cities.[221]

text: Global cities feature concentrations of extremely wealthy and extremely poor people.[222] Their economies are lubricated by their capacity (limited by the national government's immigration policy, which functionally defines the supply side of the labor market) to recruit low- and high-skilled immigrant workers from poorer areas.[223][224][225] More and more cities today draw on this globally available labor force.[226]

text: Transnational activity[edit]

text: Cities increasingly participate in world political activities independently of their enclosing nation-states. Early examples of this phenomenon are the sister city relationship and the promotion of multi-level governance within the European Union as a technique for European integration.[211][227][228] Cities including Hamburg, Prague, Amsterdam, The Hague, and City of London maintain their own embassies to the European Union at Brussels.[229][230][231]

text: New urban dwellers may increasingly not simply as immigrants but as transmigrants, keeping one foot each (through telecommunications if not travel) in their old and their new homes.[232]

text: Global governance[edit]

text: Cities participate in global governance by various means including membership in global networks which transmit norms and regulations. At the general, global level, United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) is a significant umbrella organization for cities; regionally and nationally, Eurocities, Asian Network of Major Cities 21, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities the National League of Cities, and the United States Conference of Mayors play similar roles.[233][234] UCLG took responsibility for creating Agenda 21 for culture, a program for cultural policies promoting sustainable development, and has organized various conferences and reports for its furtherance.[235]

text: Networks have become especially prevalent in the arena of environmentalism and specifically climate change following the adoption of Agenda 21. Environmental city networks include the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, World Association of Major Metropolises ("Metropolis"), the United Nations Global Compact Cities Programme, the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance (CNCA), the Covenant of Mayors and the Compact of Mayors,[236] ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, and the Transition Towns network.[233][234]

text: Cities with world political status as meeting places for advocacy groups, non-governmental organizations, lobbyists, educational institutions, intelligence agencies, military contractors, information technology firms, and other groups with a stake in world policymaking. They are consequently also sites for symbolic protest.[139][d]

text: United Nations System[edit]

text: The United Nations System has been involved in a series of events and declarations dealing with the development of cities during this period of rapid urbanization.

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The Habitat I conference in 1976 adopted the "Vancouver Declaration on Human Settlements" which identifies urban management as a fundamental aspect of development and establishes various principles for maintaining urban habitats.[237]
Citing the Vancouver Declaration, the UN General Assembly in December 1977 authorized the United Nations Commission Human Settlements and the HABITAT Centre for Human Settlements, intended to coordinate UN activities related to housing and settlements.[238]
The 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro resulted in a set of international agreements including Agenda 21 which establishes principles and plans for sustainable development.[239]

World Assembly of Mayors at Habitat III conference in Quito.

The Habitat II conference in 1996 called for cities to play a leading role in this program, which subsequently advanced the Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals.[240]
In January 2002 the UN Commission on Human Settlements became an umbrella agency called the United Nations Human Settlements Programme or UN-Habitat, a member of the United Nations Development Group.[238]
The Habitat III conference of 2016 focused on implementing these goals under the banner of a "New Urban Agenda". The four mechanisms envisio 14ned for effecting the New Urban Agenda are (1) national policies promoting integrated sustainable development, (2) stronger urban governance, (3) long-term integrated urban and territorial planning, and (4) effective financing frameworks.[241][242] Just before this conference, the European Union concurrently approved an "Urban Agenda for the European Union" known as the Pact of Amsterdam.[241]

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text: UN-Habitat coordinates the UN urban agenda, working with the UN Environmental Programme, the UN Development Programme, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Health Organization, and the World Bank.[238]

text: The World Bank, a United Nations specialized agency, has been a primary force in promoting the Habitat conferences, and since the first Habitat conference has used their declarations as a framework for issuing loans for urban infrastructure.[240] The bank's structural adjustment programs contributed to urbanization in the Third World by creating incentives to move to cities.[243][244] The World Bank and UN-Habitat in 1999 jointly established the Cities Alliance (based at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C.) to guide policymaking, knowledge sharing, and grant distribution around the issue of urban poverty.[245] (UN-Habitat plays an advisory role in evaluating the quality of a locality's governance.)[125] The Bank's policies have tended to focus on bolstering real estate markets through credit and technical assistance.[246]

text: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO has increasingly focused on cities as key sites for influencing cultural governance. It has developed various city networks including the International Coalition of Cities against Racism and the Creative Cities Network. UNESCO's capacity to select World Heritage Sites and maintain them through Public/social/private partnerships gives the organization significant influence over cultural capital, tourism, and historic preservation funding.[235]

text: Representation in culture[edit]

text: Cities figure prominently in traditional Western mythology, appearing in the Bible in both evil and holy forms, symbolized by Babylon and Jerusalem.[247] Cain and Nimrod are the first city builders in the Book of Genesis. In Sumerian mythology Gilgamesh built the walls of Uruk.

text: Cities can be perceived in terms of extremes or opposites: at once liberating and oppressive, wealthy and poor, organized and chaotic.[248] The name anti-urbanism refers to various types of ideological opposition to cities, whether because of their culture or their political relationship with the country. Such opposition may result from identification of cities with oppression and the ruling elite.[249] This and other political ideologies strongly influence narratives and themes in discourse about cities.[14] In turn, cities symbolize their home societies.[250]

text: Writers, painters, and filmmakers have produced innumerable works of art concerning the urban experience. Classical and medieval literature includes a genre of descriptiones which treat of city features and history. Modern authors such as Charles Dickens and James Joyce are famous for evocative descriptions of their home cities.[251] Fritz Lang conceived the idea for his influential 1927 film Metropolis while visiting Times Square and marveling at the nighttime neon lighting.[252] Other early cinematic representations of cities in the twentieth century generally depicted them as technologically efficient spaces with smoothly functioning systems of automobile transport. By the 1960s, however, traffic congestion began to appear in such films as The Fast Lady (1962) and Playtime (1967).[189]

text: Literature, film, and other forms of popular culture have supplied visions of future cities both utopian and dystopian. The prospect of expanding, communicating, and increasingly interdependent world cities has given rise to images such as Nylonkong (NY, London, Hong Kong)[253] and visions of a single world-encompassing ecumenopolis.[254]


document_title: The Kapil Sharma Show

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text: The Kapil Sharma Show

text: Format[edit]

text: The series' format is largely identical to that of Comedy Nights with Kapil.[6] The Kapil Sharma Show revolves around Kapil Sharma and his team of comedians, including Sumona Chakravarti, Kiku Sharda, Chandan Prabhakar and Rochelle Rao who play residents of the Shantivan Non-cooperative Housing Society. Normally every episode unfolds in two parts with the first part being a comic skit enacted by the actors of the show and the second part being the celebrity interview where popular personalities from various fields indulge in a light-hearted interaction with Kapil Sharma. Navjot Singh Sidhu is the permanent guest of the show who entertains everyone with his poetry.[7]

text: Cast[edit]

text: Main[edit]

text:
Kapil Sharma as Kappu Sharma / Chappu Sharma/ Shamsher Singh (Inspector) / Rajesh Arora / Gappu / Tapu
Sumona Chakravarti as Sarla Gulati (Daughter of Dr. Mashoor Gulati and childhood friend of Kappu)
Kiku Sharda as Bumper (Nurse in 50-50 hospital) / Santosh (Rinku Devi's sister-in-law) / Damodar Ishwarlal Gaitonde (Inspector) / Bachha Yadav (Milkman) / Kaccha Yadav (Brother of Bachha Yadav)
Sunil Grover as Dr. Mashoor Gulati/ Rinku Devi / Piddu[8]
Ali Asgar as Naani[9]
Bharti Singh as Babli Mausi/Lalli[10]
Rochelle Rao as Lottery (Nurse in 50-50 hospital)
Chandan Prabhakar as Chandu (Owner of Dubai tea stall)
Sugandha Mishra as Teacher Vidyavati
Navjot Singh Sidhu as a Permanent Guest

text: Recurring[edit]

text:
Naseem Vicky as Chiku (Twinkle's husband and Film Producer)[11]
Paresh Ganatra as Auto driver and various characters
Rajiv Thakur as a Policeman and various characters
Upasana Singh as Twinkle (Kappu's neighbour and old friend of Dr. Mashoor Gulati)
Siddharth Sagar as Omerian Khurana (Khajoor's School Principal)
Hussain Dehgamwala as Chunnu Tripathi and various characters
Naveen Bawa as various characters
Vikalp Mehta in a Guest Role
Atul Parchure as bodyguard and various characters
Debina Bonnerjee in a Guest Role
Sargun Mehta as Dr. Sudha (Guest Role) and various characters
Pooja Gor in a Guest Role
Roshni Chopra in a Guest Role
Manju Sharma as Thandai Devi (Chandu's wife and Khajoor's mother)
Monica Castelino in a Guest Role
Raju Shrivastav as Bumper's Chacha ji and various characters

text: List of Episodes[edit]

text:
No.
Guest(s)
Date of Broadcast
Featured Promotion
Ref

1
Shah Rukh Khan
23 April 2016
Fan
[12]

2
Shraddha Kapoor & Tiger Shroff
24 April 2016
Baaghi
[13]

3
Yo Yo Honey Singh
30 April 2016
Zorawar
[14]

4
Wasim Akram & Shaniera Thompson
1 May 2016
Special appearance
[15]

Jimmy Shergill
Vaisakhi List

5
Emraan Hashmi, Prachi Desai, Lara Dutta & Mohammad Azharuddin
7 May 2016
Azhar
[16]

6
Aishwarya Rai, Randeep Hooda, Omung Kumar
8 May 2016
Sarbjit
[17]

7
Saina Nehwal
14 May 2016
Special appearance
[18]

8
Akshay Kumar, Abhishek Bachchan, Chunky Pandey, Jackie Shroff & Ritesh Deshmukh
15 May 2016
Housefull 3
[19]

9
21 May 2016

10
Raveena Tandon & Dwayne Bravo
22 May 2016
Special appearance
[20]

11
Mika Singh, Chris Gayle & Kanika Kapoor
28 May 2016
Special appearance
[21]

12
Shivaji Satam, Aditya Srivastava & Dayanand Shetty
29 May 2016
CID
[22]

13
Bipasha Basu & Karan Singh Grover
4 June 2016
Special Appearance
[23]

14
Sania Mirza & Farah Khan
5 June 2016
Special appearance
[24]

15
Armaan Malik, Amaal Mallik, Randeep Hooda & Kajal Aggarwal
11 June 2016
Do Lafzon Ki Kahani
[25]

16
Rinku Rajguru, Akash Thosar, Nagraj Manjule, Ajay-Atul, Arbaaz Shaikh & Tanaji Galgunde,
12 June 2016
Sairat
[26]

17
Shilpa Shetty, Raj Kundra & Shamita Shetty
18 June 2016
Super Dancer
[27]

18
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
19 June 2016
Special Appearance
[28]

19
Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Anurag Kashyap, Vicky Kaushal, Vikramaditya Motwane, Vikas Bahl & Madhu Mantena
25 June 2016
Raman Raghav 2.0
[29]

20
Govinda, Sunita Ahuja & Tina Ahuja
26 June 2016
Special Appearance
[30]

21
Navjot Kaur Sidhu & Rabia Sidhu
2 July 2016
Special Appearance
[31]

22
Wadali Brothers & Lakhwinder Wadali
3 July 2016
Special Appearance
[32]

23
Salman Khan & Anushka Sharma
9 July 2016
Sultan
[33]

24
Irrfan Khan & Jimmy Shergill
10 July 2016
Madaari
[34]

25
Riteish Deshmukh, Vivek Oberoi, Aftab Shivdasani, Urvashi Rautela, Indra Kumar
16 July 2016
Great Grand Masti
[35]

26
A. R. Rahman
17 July 2016
Special Appearance
[36]

27
John Abraham, Varun Dhawan & Jacqueline Fernandez
23 July 2016
Dishoom
[37]

28
Abhay Deol, Diana Penty, Ali Fazal & Momal Sheikh
24 July 2016
Happy Bhag Jayegi
[38]

29
Arshad Warsi & Maria Goretti
30 July 2016
The Legend of Michael Mishra
[39]

30
Gauhar Khan & Rajeev Khandelwal
31 July 2016
Fever
[40]

31
Manoj Bajpayee & Mayur Patole
6 August 2016
Budhia Singh - Born to Run
[41]

32
Hrithik Roshan, Pooja Hegde & Ashutosh Gowariker
7 August 2016
Mohenjo Daro
[42]

33
Akshay Kumar, Ileana D'Cruz, Esha Gupta & Arjan Bajwa
13 August 2016
Rustom
[43]

34
14 August 2016

35
Jacqueline Fernandez, Tiger Shroff & Remo D'Souza
20 August 2016
A Flying Jatt
[44]

36
Brett Lee & Tannishtha Chatterjee
21 August 2016
UnIndian
[45]

37
Anup Jalota, Pankaj Udhas & Talat Aziz
27 August 2016
Special Appearance
[46]

38
Sonakshi Sinha
28 August 2016
Akira
[47]

39
Shilpa Shetty, Geeta Kapoor & Anurag Basu
3 September 2016
Super Dancer
[48]

40
Sidharth Malhotra & Katrina Kaif
4 September 2016
Baar Baar Dekho
[49]

41
Sohail Khan, Arbaaz Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui & Amy Jackson
10 September 2016
Freaky Ali
[50]

42
Arijit Singh
11 September 2016
Special appearance
[51]

43
Shekhar Ravjiani & The Vamps
17 September 2016
Beliya
[52]

44
Ritesh Deshmukh, Nargis Fakhri & Dharmesh Yelande
18 September 2016
Banjo
[53]

45
Yuvraj Singh & Hazel Keech
24 September 2016
YouWeCan
[54]

46
Prabhu Deva, Tamannaah & Sonu Sood
25 September 2016
Tutak Tutak Tutiya
[55]

47
John Abraham, Sonakshi Sinha & Tahir Raj Bhasin
1 October 2016
Force 2
[56]

48
Anna Hazare & Shashank Udapurkar
2 October 2016
Anna
[57]

49
Anil Kapoor, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Harshvardhan Kapoor & Saiyami Kher
8 October 2016
Mirzya
[58]

50
Jennifer Winget, Kushal Tandon & Aneri Vajani
9 October 2016
Beyhadh
[59]

Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani & Loy Mendonsa
Mirzya
[60]

51
Soha Ali Khan & Neha Dhupia
15 October 2016
31st October,
Moh Maya Money,
No Filter
[61]

52
Paralympic Athletes
16 October 2016
Special Appearance
[62]

53
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Ranbir Kapoor & Anushka Sharma
22 October 2016
Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
[63]

54
23 October 2016

55
Ajay Devgan & Kajol
29 October 2016
Shivaay
[64]

56
Ajay Devgan, Kajol, Erika Kaar, Abigail Eames, Sayesha Saigal, Mithoon & Kailash Kher
30 October 2016

57
Shraddha Kapoor, Farhan Akhtar, Arjun Rampal & Prachi Desai
5 November 2016
Rock On 2
[65]

58
Sukhwinder Singh, Rabbi Shergill & Nooran Sisters
6 November 2016
Special Appearance
[66]

59
Mir
12 November 2016
Colkatay Columbus
[67]

Vidya Balan & Arjun Rampal
Kahaani 2
[68]

60
Cast of all programs of Sony TV
19 November 2016
21 years of Sony TV
[69]

Sonu Nigam & Anu Malik
Indian Idol
[70]

Neha Sharma, Aditya Seal & Aashim Gulati
Tum Bin 2
[71]

Ajay−Atul
For Logo Music of Sony TV
[69]

61
Anup Kumar, Ajay Thakur, Jasvir Singh, Rahul Chaudhari & Mohit Chillar
20 November 2016
Kabaddi World Cup Victory Celebration
[72]

62
Shah Rukh Khan & Alia Bhatt
26 November 2016
Dear Zindagi
[73]

63
Ranveer Singh & Vaani Kapoor
27 November 2016
Befikre
[74]

64
Karan Johar
3 December 2016
Special Appearance
[75]

65
Mika Singh & Daler Mehndi
4 December 2016
Sohniye
[76]

66
Virender Sehwag
10 December 2016
Special Appearance
[77]

67
Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol & Shreyas Talpade
11 December 2016
Poster Boys
[78]

68
Sonu Nigam, Anu Malik & Farah Khan
18 December 2016
Indian Idol
[70]

69
Sunny Leone & Daniel Weber
25 December 2016
Special Appearance
[79]

70
Sweta Singh, Meet Bros & Khushboo Grewal
31 December 2016
New Year's Eve
[80]

71
Priyanka Chopra, Simi Chahal & Ranjit Bawa
1 January 2017
Sarvann
[81]

72
Shraddha Kapoor & Aditya Roy Kapoor
7 January 2017
Ok Jaanu
[82]

73
Himesh Reshammiya & Iulia Vântur
8 January 2017
Aap Se Mausiiquii
[83]

74
Mahavir Singh Phogat, Geeta Phogat, Babita Kumari, Ritu Phogat & Sangita Phogat
15 January 2017
Special Appearance
[84]

75
Shah Rukh Khan & Nawazuddin Siddiqui
21 January 2017
Raees
[85]

76
Baba Ramdev
22 January 2017
Special Appearance
[86]

77
Richa Sharma
28 January 2017
Special Appearance
[87]

78
Raveena Tandon
29 January 2017
Sabse Bada Kalakar
[88]

Jackie Chan, Sonu Sood, Disha Patani, Amyra Dastur, Miya Muqi & Stanley Tong
Kung Fu Yoga

79
Hrithik Roshan, Rakesh Roshan, Rohit Roy, Ronit Roy, Sanjay Gupta, Urvashi Rautela & Yami Gautam
4 February 2017
Kaabil
[89]

80
Akshay Kumar & Huma Qureshi
5 February 2017
Jolly LLB 2
[90]

81
Neetu Singh & Rishi Kapoor
11 February 2017
Special Appearance
[91]

82
Gurdas Maan
12 February 2017
Special Appearance
[92]

83
Kangana Ranaut & Shahid Kapoor
19 February 2017
Rangoon
[93]

84
Govinda, Shakti Kapoor & Sunita Ahuja
25 February 2017
Aa Gaya Hero
[94]

85
Rekha Bhardwaj & Vishal Bhardwaj
26 February 2017
Special Appearance
[95]

86
Alia Bhatt & Varun Dhawan
4 March 2017
Badrinath Ki Dulhania
[96]

87
Players of Indian National Blind Cricket Team
5 March 2017
Special Appearance
[97]

88
Abbas-Mustan, Kiara Advani & Mustafa Burmawala
11 March 2017
Machine
[98]

89
Remo D'Souza, Terence Lewis & Vaibhavi Merchant
12 March 2017
Special Appearance
[99]

90
Anushka Sharma
18 March 2017
Phillauri
[100]

91
Vidya Balan, Gauahar Khan, Ila Arun, Pallavi Sharda, Poonam Singh Rajput, Ridheema Tiwari, Flora Saini, Priyanka Sethia & Raviza Chauhan
19 March 2017
Begum Jaan
[101]

92
Manoj Bajpayee & Taapsee Pannu
25 March 2017
Naam Shabana
[102]

93
Raju Srivastav, Sunil Pal & Ahsaan Qureshi
26 March 2017
Special Appearance
[103]

94
Raveena Tandon
1 April 2017
Maatr, Sabse Bada Kalakar
[104]

95
Parineeti Chopra & Ayushmann Khurrana
8 April 2017
Meri Pyaari Bindu
[105]

96
Bappi Lahri & Top 5 contestants of Indian Idol Season 9
9 April 2017
Special Appearance
[106]
[107]

97
Sonakshi Sinha & Shibani Dandekar
15 April 2017
Noor
[108]

98
Shaan & Radhika Mukherjee
16 April 2017
Special Appearance
[109]

99
Hans Raj Hans & Navraj Hans
22 April 2017
Special Appearance
[110]

100
Boman Irani
23 April 2017
Sabse Bada Kalakar
[111]

Mithali Raj, Harmanpreet Kaur, Veda Krishnamurthy & Jhulan Goswami
Special appearance
[112]

101
Salim–Sulaiman & Benny Dayal
29 April 2017
IPL Theme Song
[113]

102
Prem Chopra, Ranjeet & Raza Murad
30 April 2017
Special Appearance
[114]

103
Sunidhi Chauhan & Hitesh Sonik
6 May 2017
Special Appearance
[115]

104
Irrfan Khan, Deepak Dobriyal, Dishita Seghal & Sachin-Jigar
7 May 2017
Hindi Medium
[116]

105
Asha Parekh & Helen
13 May 2017
Special Appearance
[117]

106
Arjun Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor & Chetan Bhagat
14 May 2017
Half Girlfriend
[118]

107
Manisha Koirala & Shreya Chaudhary
20 May 2017
Dear Maya
[119]
[120]

108
Huma Qureshi & Saqib Saleem
21 May 2017
Dobaara: See Your Evil
[121]

109
Suresh Raina, Shikhar Dhawan & Hardik Pandya
27 May 2017
Special Appearance
[122]

110
Mahesh Manjrekar, Medha Manjrekar, Sachin Khedekar, Isha Koppikar & Akash Thosar
28 May 2017
Friendship Unlimited
[123]

111
Rajkumar Rao, Shruti Haasan, Gautam Gulati & Gulshan Grover
3 June 2017
Behen Hogi Teri
[124]

112
Sushant Singh Rajput & Kriti Sanon
10 June 2017
Raabta
[125]

113
Riteish Deshmukh & Vivek Oberoi
11 June 2017
Bank Chor
[126]

114
Diljit Dosanjh & Sonam Bajwa
17 June 2017
Super Singh
[127]

115
Baichung Bhutia, Anju Bobby George, Sushil Kumar & Love Raj Singh Dharmshaktu
24 June 2017
OORJA initiative by the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF)
[128]

116
Paresh Rawal, Kartik Aaryan, Tanvi Azmi & Kriti Kharbanda
25 June 2017
Guest Iin London
[129]

117
Kumar Vishwas, Rahat Indori & Shabeena Adeeb
1 July 2017
Special Appearance
[130]

118
Yusuf Pathan, Irfan Pathan & Mehmood Khan Pathan
2 July 2017
Special Appearance
[131]

119
Sardara Singh, Manpreet Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Akashdeep Singh, Harmanpreet Singh & Jugraj Singh
8 July 2017
Indian Hockey Team
[132]

120
Neil Nitin Mukesh, Kirti Kulhari, Madhur Bhandarkar & Bappi Lahiri
9 July 2017
Indu Sarkar
[133]

121
Prakash Jha, Ekta Kapoor & Plabita Borthakur
15 July 2017
Lipstick Under My Burkha
[134]

122
Tiger Shroff, Nidhhi Agerwal & Sabbir Khan
16 July 2017
Munna Michael
[135]

123
Anil Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor, Ileana D'Cruz, Anees Bazmee, Pawan Malhotra & Rahul Dev
29 July 2017
Mubarakan
[136]

124
30 July 2017
[137]

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Nawazuddin Siddiqui & Bidita Bag
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Babumoshai Bandookbaaz
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Hariharan & Lesle Lewis
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Special Appearance
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Kriti Sanon, Ayushmann Khurrana, Rajkummar Rao, Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, Pankaj Tripathi & Seema Pahwa
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Bareilly Ki Barfi
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Sidharth Malhotra & Jacqueline Fernandez
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A Gentleman
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Daddy
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text: Development[edit]

text: On 22 December 2015, The Times of India reported that Sharma had decided to end his Comedy Nights with Kapil series and might move it to Star Plus or Sony Entertainment Television (India) with a new title because of his unhappiness with Colors TV. He said, "Yes, it's true. We told them we would go off the air in December, but since they didn't have a replacement ready, they requested us to continue till January 17".[144] On 4 February 2016, The Times of India reported that the new show would be called Comedy Style.[145] On 2 March, the newspaper confirmed that the new show would air on Sony TV. At a press conference the day before, the show's title was announced as The Kapil Sharma Show. Asked the reason for the change from Comedy Style, Navjot Singh Sidhu said that the show's creative team was uncertain about the name and conducted market research. Sharma's fans wanted a title like Kapil Wala Show, and the team came up with The Kapil Sharma Show.[146]

text: Sharma and his team promoted the future show with live performances in Delhi, Lucknow, Bhopal and Amritsar, and the first episode was shot before a live audience in Delhi. According to Sharma, "Our aim has always been to bring a smile to everyone and with The Kapil Sharma Show we wish to do just that". Sony TV head Danish Khan said, "We are delighted to have Kapil and his talented team of writers and artists to put up this show: The Kapil Sharma Show."[147] The producers invested ₹50 lakh (US$77,000) in the show's first promotion,[148] introduced by Sharma and his team on 1 March. Asked what had hurt him the most after the cancellation of Comedy Nights with Kapil by Colors TV, Sharma said: "I am only hurt by the fact that they (Colors TV) removed the show from YouTube. It had become a historical show. They shouldn’t have removed it."[149]

text: On 1 March a contest, "Kapil Se Mil" ("Meet Kapil") was started by Sony TV to give viewers an opportunity to meet Sharma.[147] The series premiered on 23 April 2016. Originally scheduled for 26 episodes,[150] it was later extended indefinitely.

text: Reception[edit]

text: The Kapil Sharma Show received a mixed reception from critics and audiences.[151] Namrata Thakker of Rediff.com gave it 2.5 stars out of 5 stars, liking the characters of Sunil Grover and Ali Asgar but saying that "the series has big shoes to fill considering how successful their earlier show Comedy Nights With Kapil was."[152] Chaya Unnikrishnan of Daily News and Analysis gave the series two stars out of five but said, "Kapil Sharma’s wit and funny one-liners bring a laugh". Although she praised part of the show ("In fact, the 10 minutes or so where [Sharma] has a monologue is the best part of the show"), Unnikrishnan called it "dull and disappointing".[153] In her 1.5-star review, Letty Mariam Abraham of Mid Day said: "The whole look and feel of the new set is interesting, even if the jokes are old". However, "Kapil brings nothing new to the plate and it seems like waste of the prime time slot."[154]

text: Viewer response[edit]

text: According to the reports published by the Broadcast Audience Research Council, the show's first episode of the show generated 8,943 responses. Although some viewers were happy to see the same contestants back after watching Comedy Nights with Kapil, others were disappointed with the show's repetitive humour and chaos.[155] The series' 16th episode, featuring the Sairat team and airing on 12 June 2016, had good ratings show in the non-fiction category.[156]


document_title: Energy Star

question_text: what are the purposes of the energy star program

text: Energy Star

text: History[edit]

text: The Energy Star program was developed by John S. Hoffman, inventor of the Green Programs at EPA, working closely with the IT industry, and implemented by Cathy Zoi and Brian Johnson.[7] The program was intended to be part of a series of voluntary programs, such as Green Lights and the Methane Programs, that would demonstrate the potential for profit in reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gases by power plants.[7]

text: Initiated as a voluntary labeling program designed to identify and promote energy efficient products, Energy Star began with labels for computer and printer products. In 1995 the program was significantly expanded, introducing labels for residential heating and cooling systems and new homes.[8] At this time, newly formed energy efficiency programs, administered by ratepayer funded entities such as utilities, agreed through the Consortium for Energy Efficiency to begin promoting their programs using the ENERGY STAR brand. In 2000, the Consortium for Energy Efficiency was directed by members to begin an annual survey of ENERGY STAR impact.[9]

text: As of 2006, more than 40,000 Energy Star products were available in a wide range of items including major appliances, office equipment, lighting, home electronics, and more. In addition, the label can also be found on new homes and commercial and industrial buildings. In 2006, about 12 percent of new housing in the United States was labeled Energy Star.[10]

text: The EPA estimates that it saved about $14 billion in energy costs in 2006 alone. The Energy Star program has helped spread the use of LED traffic lights, efficient fluorescent lighting, power management systems for office equipment, and low standby energy use.[11]

text: In 2008, the EPA announced the Green Power Partnership program, which was designed to help achieve its goal of encouraging the use of renewable power sources. The renewable energy credits (REC) allow companies without direct access to renewable power the ability to achieve their goals. However, to avoid companies buying RECs years in advance of any of the hypothetical power ever being produced, RECs are only accepted into the program when the actual equivalent renewable power will be produced.[12]

text: Specifications[edit]

text: Energy Star specifications differ with each item, and are set by either the Environmental Protection Agency or the Department of Energy. The following highlights product and specification information available on the Energy Star website.

text: Computers[edit]

text: Energy Star 4.0 specifications for computers became effective on July 20, 2007. The requirements are more stringent than the previous specification and existing equipment designs can no longer use the service mark unless re-qualified. They require the use of 80 Plus Bronze level or higher power supplies. Energy Star 5.0 became effective on July 1, 2009.[13] Energy Star 6.1 became effective on September 10, 2014. [14]

text: Servers[edit]

text: The EPA released Version 1.0 of the Computer Server specifications on May 15, 2009. It covered standalone servers with one to four processor sockets. A second tier to the specification adding active state power and performance reporting for all qualified servers, as well as blade and multi-node server idle state requirements became effective December 16, 2013.[15]

text: Appliances[edit]

text: As of early 2008, average refrigerators need 20% savings over the minimum standard. Dishwashers need at least 41% savings. Most appliances as well as heating and cooling systems have a yellow EnergyGuide label showing the annual cost of operation compared to other models. This label is created through the Federal Trade Commission and often shows if an appliance is Energy Star.[16] While an Energy Star label indicates that the appliance is more energy efficient than the minimum guidelines, purchasing an Energy Star labeled product does not always mean one is getting the most energy efficient option available. For example, dehumidifiers that are rated under 25 US pints (12 L) per day of water extraction receive an Energy Star rating if they have an energy factor of 1.2 (higher is better), while those rated 25 US pints (12 L) to 35 US pints (17 L) per day receive an Energy Star rating for an energy factor of 1.4 or higher. Thus a higher-capacity but non-Energy Star rated dehumidifier may be a more energy efficient alternative than an Energy Star rated but lower-capacity model.[17] The Energy Star program's savings calculator has also been criticized for unrealistic assumptions in its model that tend to magnify savings benefits to the average consumer.[18]

text: Another factor yet to be considered by the EPA and DOE is the overall effect of energy-saving requirements on the durability and expected service life of a mass-market appliance built to a consumer-level cost standard. For example, a refrigerator may be made more efficient by the use of more insulative spacing and a smaller-capacity compressor using electronics to control operation and temperature. However, this may come at the cost of reduced interior storage (or increased exterior mass) or a reduced service life due to compressor or electronic failures. In particular, electronic controls used on new-generation appliances are subject to damage from shock, vibration, moisture, or power spikes on the electrical circuit to which they are attached. Critics have pointed out that even if a new appliance is energy efficient, any consumer appliance that does not provide customer satisfaction, or must be replaced twice as often as its predecessor contributes to landfill pollution and waste of natural resources used to construct its replacement.[19]

text: Heating and cooling systems[edit]

text: Energy Star qualified heat pumps, boilers, air conditioning systems, and furnaces are available. In addition, cooling and heating bills can be significantly lowered with air sealing and duct sealing. Air sealing reduces the outdoor air that penetrates a building, and duct sealing prevents attic or basement air from entering ducts and lessening the heating/cooling system’s efficiency. Energy Star qualified room air conditioners are at least 10% more energy efficient than the minimum U.S. federal government standards.[20]

text: Home electronics[edit]

text: Energy Star qualified televisions[21] use 30% less energy than average. In November 2008, television specifications were improved to limit on-mode power use, in addition to standby power which is limited by the current specifications. A wider range of Energy Star qualified televisions will be available. Other qualified home electronics include cordless phones, battery chargers, VCRs and external power adapters, most of which use 90% less energy.

text: Imaging equipment[edit]

text: The Energy Star Program Requirements for Imaging Products are focused on product families such as electrophotographic (EP) printers, inkjet printers (e.g., thermal), copiers, facsimile machines and other imaging equipment including MFD's (multifunctional devices). Typical Electrical Consumption (TEC) of a product family are measured and reported against an allowance set by the maximum throughput of the device. Operation modes (OM) are measured and reported for devices such as inkjet products against an allowance set by the functions present in the EUT (equipment under test). Devices that included "adders" such as Ethernet, on-board memory, wireless, etc. are mathematically "added" to increase the OM allowance. Recently on February 1, 2011, the EPA/DOE added the requirement that all products registered under the Energy Star service mark, must be tested by an AB (Accredited Body) or CB (Certification Body) Laboratory.

text: Lighting[edit]

text: The Energy Star is awarded to only certain bulbs that meet strict efficiency, quality, and lifetime criteria.

text: Energy Star qualified fluorescent lighting uses 75% less energy and lasts up to ten times longer than normal incandescent lights.

text: Energy Star Qualified light-emitting diode (LED) Lighting:

text:
Reduces energy costs — uses at least 75% less energy than incandescent lighting, saving on operating expenses.
Reduces maintenance costs — lasts 35 to 50 times longer than incandescent lighting and about 2 to 5 times longer than fluorescent lighting. No bulb-replacements, no ladders, no ongoing disposal program.
Reduces cooling costs — LEDs produce very little heat.

text: To qualify for Energy Star certification, LED lighting products must pass a variety of tests to prove that the products will display the following characteristics:

text:
Brightness is equal to or greater than existing lighting technologies (incandescent or fluorescent) and light is well distributed over the area lighted by the fixture.
Light output remains constant over time, only decreasing towards the end of the rated lifetime (at least 35,000 hours or 12 years based on use of 8 hours per day).
Excellent color quality. The shade of white light appears clear and consistent over time.
Efficiency is as good as or better than fluorescent lighting.
Light comes on instantly when turned on.
No flicker when dimmed.
No off-state power draw. The fixture does not use power when it is turned off, with the exception of external controls, whose power should not exceed 0.5 watts in the off state.

text: New homes[edit]

text: New homes that meet strict guidelines for energy efficiency can qualify for Energy Star certification. An Energy Star qualified home uses at least 15% less energy than standard homes built to the 2003 International Residential Code (IRC). They usually include properly installed insulation, high performance windows, tight construction and ducts, energy efficient cooling and heating systems, and Energy Star qualified appliances, lighting, and water heaters.[22]

text: Energy performance ratings[edit]

text: The U.S. EPA's Energy Star program has developed energy performance rating systems for several commercial and institutional building types and manufacturing facilities. These ratings, on a scale of 1 to 100, provide a means for benchmarking the energy efficiency of specific buildings and industrial plants against the energy performance of similar facilities. The ratings are used by building and energy managers to evaluate the energy performance of existing buildings and industrial plants. The rating systems are also used by EPA to determine if a building or plant can qualify to earn Energy Star recognition.[23][24]

text: For many types of commercial buildings, one can enter energy information into EPA's free online tool, Portfolio Manager,[25] and it will calculate a score for one's building on a scale of 1-100. Buildings that score a 75 or greater may qualify for the Energy Star. Portfolio Manager is an interactive energy management tool that allows one to track and assess energy and water consumption across one's entire portfolio of buildings in a secure online environment. Whether one owns, manages, or holds properties for investment, Portfolio Manager can help one set investment priorities, identify under-performing buildings, verify efficiency improvements, and receive EPA recognition for superior energy performance.[26] Portfolio Manager uses an automated benchmarking tool that can award Energy Star certification to buildings that have uploaded 12 months of consecutive energy usage data and received scores of 75 or above.

text: Buildings[edit]

text: The number of space types that can receive the energy performance rating in Portfolio Manager is expanding and now includes housing,[10] bank/financial institutions, courthouses, hospitals (acute care and children's), hotels and motels, houses of worship, K-12 schools, medical offices, offices, residence halls/dormitories, retail stores, supermarkets, warehouses (refrigerated and non-refrigerated), data centers, senior care facilities, and wastewater facilities.[27][28]

text: See the technical descriptions for models used in the rating system at.[29] These documents provide detailed information on the methodologies used to create the energy performance ratings including details on rating objectives, regression techniques, and the steps applied to compute a rating. A 1-100 rating can be generated for ratable space types by entering building attributes, such as square footage and weekly operating hours, and monthly energy consumption data into Portfolio Manager, a free online tool provided by Energy Star. This process is known as benchmarking and reveals how a building's energy consumption compares to that of other similar buildings of the same space type, based on a national average. Earning a rating of 75 or above is the first step towards achieving the Energy Star for a building.

text:
Energy Star energy performance ratings have been incorporated into some green buildings standards, such as LEED for Existing Buildings.
Energy Conservation Building Code - India

text: Industrial facilities[edit]

text: Energy performance ratings have been released for the following industrial facilities:[30]

text: Automobile assembly plants, cement plants, wet corn mills, container glass manufacturing, flat glass manufacturing, frozen fried potato processing plants, juice processing, petroleum refineries, and pharmaceutical manufacturing plants.[28]

text: Other facilities[edit]

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text: Small business award[edit]

text: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) annually recognizes small businesses that demonstrate abilities to reduce waste, conserve energy, and recycle. The businesses use resources and ideas outlined in the Energy Star program.[31] The award was established in 1999.

text: Controversies[edit]

text: On December 17, 2008, the EPA Office of the Inspector General released its report on the Energy Star program. The Inspector General's audit found that the program's claims regarding greenhouse gas reductions were inaccurate and based on faulty data. Additionally, the IG found that Energy Star program's reported energy savings were unreliable, and that many of the touted benefits could not be verified. "Deficiencies included the lack of a quality review of the data collected; reliance on estimates, forecasting, and unverified third party reporting; and the potential inclusion of exported items," the report concluded.[32]

text: Additionally, the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, Consumer Reports, and the trade website ApplianceAdvisor.com,[33] have released statements claiming that Energy Star test procedures contained loopholes that allow many inefficient products to receive Energy Star labels. Specific claims include:

text:
U.S. Department of Energy regulations allowed the manufacturers to test the refrigerators with their ice-makers turned off, which is not how they are normally used in the home. However, the Energy Star requirements usually exclude refrigerators that include an ice maker because of the penetration of the ice dispenser. Some designs get around this by dispensing the ice into a tray located in the freezer.[34]
Using outdated testing rules and loose standards to award Energy Star ratings.
The program allows manufacturers to test their own products and only selectively spot-checks the test results they submit.
There are so many individually rated refrigerator categories that even inefficient product categories (such as side-by-sides) are certified.

text: Before the complaints were raised in 2008, 2006 federal court had required the DOE to update and tighten misleading Energy Star ratings given to products in almost two dozen categories, including dishwashers, air conditioners, heaters, furnaces and clothes dryers. The updates were to settle complaints by 14 states. However, categories such as room air conditioners and clothes dryers would not be completed until June 2011.[35]

text: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had released reports in 2007 and 2008 claiming Energy Star labels were misleading. Inspector general issued a report that said Energy Star's savings claims were "not accurate or verifiable." The report also found that shipment data for Energy Star products were not being adequately reviewed and in some cases, were based on estimates instead of actual shipping totals.[36]

text: Martin Hellman revealed that Energy Star standby mode requirement can be compromised when an electronic device uses Download Acquisition Mode (DAM) feature to update TV Guide listing during standby mode. Hellman first found the feature on Sony KDL-37XBR6.[37]

text: In March 2010, a report by the Government Accountability Office stated that the Energy Star program had accepted 15 out of 20 bogus products submitted for approval. The Energy Star program had also qualified four businesses as Energy Star partners, failing to catch the fact that information on the companies, products and staff were all fictitious.[38]

text: In 2011, EPA tried to remedy this problem by requiring third-party verification of all products. EPA now requires products, destined for the US market, to be tested for qualification in an EPA-recognized laboratory and certified as meeting the ENERGY STAR requirements by a third-party certification program.[39]

text: In March 2017 the Trump Administration proposed a budget that would eliminate the program.[40]

text: Adoption in building codes[edit]

text: The current and projected status of energy codes and standards adoption is show in the maps at the link.[41]

text: The following cities have mandatory reporting requirements.

text:
Atlanta, GA[42]
Austin, TX[43][44]
Boston, MA[45]
Minneapolis, MN[46]
New York, NY[47][48]
Philadelphia, PA[49]
San Francisco, CA[50]
Seattle, WA[51][51]
Washington, DC[52]