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These unusual benches are designed for streets, bus stops, squares and parks of Istanbul, Turkey, they are decorated in the form of books. The city of Istanbul is promoting reading with the help of book bench. Benches that generally look like an open book is placed around the city and each bench carries Quotes from 18 famous Turkish writers. This Campaign are not only promotes the reading but also turns boring public into various functional works of art. It is a brilliant idea to promote readers with the use of such creative Book Benches which are located at the heart of the city. You can't spend your time in vain sitting on such a wise bench, besides such creative approach to architecture encourages people to study, learn and read.

A list of the richest and most influential cities in the world in 2010 was released by British real estate agent Knight Frank and Citibank of U.S. The ranking is based on the comprehensive analysis of four indexes: Economic vitality, political influence, research ability and living standard. New York, London and Paris occupy the top 3 positions. Beijing is listed in the ninth place. However, no city is the all-rounder. For instance, New York took the lead at the ranking of indexes of "economic vitality" and "research ability", but its political influence came in second place and living standard even No. 8! Meanwhile, some metropolises have had markedly progress, such as Beijing,whose political influence advanced to No. 4, and Berlin, which is the runner-up in the ranking of living standard.  1 New York 2 London 3 Paris 4 Tokyo 5 Los Angeles 6 Brussels 7 Singapore 8 Berlin 9 Beijing 10 Toronto