THE FUTURE IS urban and that future has already arrived. Millennia after the first human settlements were established, the UN announced in 2007 that more than 50% of the world’s population lived in cities. The UN’s Global report on human settlements 2011 predicts that 59% of the world’s population will be living in urban areas by 2030; cities’ headcounts are growing by 67 million every year. Fully 91% of this increase is in developing countries.
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