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Half World's People to Live in Cities by 2007 -UN
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Half World's People to Live in Cities by 2007 -UN
Wed Feb 16, 5:50 PM ET
By Irwin Arieff
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Half the world's population will live in cities in two years, a huge jump from the 30 percent residing in urban areas in 1950, U.N. demographers reported on Wednesday.
Some 3.2 billion of the world's 6.5 billion people live in cities today, and the number will climb to 5 billion -- an estimated 61 percent of the global population -- by 2030, the U.N. Commission on Population and Development said in a report.
The number of very large urban areas was also rising, the commission said. Twenty cities now have 10 million or more inhabitants, compared with just four -- Tokyo, New York-Newark, Shanghai and Mexico City -- in 1975 and just two -- New York-Newark and Tokyo -- in 1950.
The five biggest cities today in population are Tokyo, with 35.3 million people, Mexico City (19.2 million), New York-Newark (18.5 million), Bombay (18.3 million) and Sao Paulo (18.3 million).
The next 15 largest are Delhi, Calcutta, Buenos Aires, Jakarta, Shanghai, Dhaka, Los Angeles, Karachi, Rio de Janeiro, Osaka-Kobe, Cairo, Lagos, Beijing, metropolitan Manila and Moscow.
By 2015, the five largest cities will be Tokyo, with 36.2 million residents, Bombay with 22.6 million, Delhi with 20.9 million, Mexico City with 20.6 million and Sao Paulo with 20 million, it said.
Despite the growing number of vast urban agglomerations, about half of all city dwellers live in far smaller urban areas of fewer than 500,000 inhabitants, according to the report.
Urban residence patterns vary depending on an area's development status, the commission found. About three-quarters of people in more developed regions lived in cities, while just 43 percent lived in them in less developed areas, it said.
Patterns also vary by region, with 75 percent of people in Latin America and the Caribbean living in cities compared with 40 percent of the people of Africa and Asia.
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| RobbyG. |
| 36 million:eyespop: in Tokyo?...Man where the hell will they put them all:nervous: |
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| Eklipse |
| quote: | Originally posted by RobbyG.
36 million:eyespop: in Tokyo?...Man where the hell will they put them all:nervous: |
They are looking to build on the water! |
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| starsearcher |
| Wow that's wild :D...pretty cool stuff, I love cities :) |
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| DJ El Kay Dee |
A worldwide survey was conducted by the UN last month. The only question
asked was: "Would you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?" The survey was a huge failure....
In Africa they didn't know what 'food' meant. In Eastern Europe they didn't know what 'honest' meant. In Western Europe they didn't know what 'shortage' meant. In China they didn't know what 'opinion' meant. In the Middle East they didn't know what 'solution' meant. In South America they didn't know what 'please' meant. And in the USA they didn't know what 'the rest of the world' meant |
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| starsearcher |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ El Kay Dee
A worldwide survey was conducted by the UN last month. The only question
asked was: "Would you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?" The survey was a huge failure....
In Africa they didn't know what 'food' meant. In Eastern Europe they didn't know what 'honest' meant. In Western Europe they didn't know what 'shortage' meant. In China they didn't know what 'opinion' meant. In the Middle East they didn't know what 'solution' meant. In South America they didn't know what 'please' meant. And in the USA they didn't know what 'the rest of the world' meant |
:haha: :stongue: good one! |
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| AwakenedAddict |
hahah funny LKD :p
The statistics aren't that surprising tho... most "developed" countries have urbanization rates well over 50% |
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| halo20 |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ El Kay Dee
A worldwide survey was conducted by the UN last month. The only question
asked was: "Would you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?" The survey was a huge failure....
In Africa they didn't know what 'food' meant. In Eastern Europe they didn't know what 'honest' meant. In Western Europe they didn't know what 'shortage' meant. In China they didn't know what 'opinion' meant. In the Middle East they didn't know what 'solution' meant. In South America they didn't know what 'please' meant. And in the USA they didn't know what 'the rest of the world' meant |
LMAO |
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| ryanm |
great post emery. I've noticed you've become more intersted in the urban issues as of late. Any reason for this?
I think this urbanization is great but eventually the earth is going to hit a point where it just wont be able to sutain anybody else. There will not be enough room to grow the food required to feed our population due to the ever increasing urban sprawl consuming valuable farm land around cities all over the world. The next 100 years are going to be very interesting in terms of all the environmental impacts that we are finally seeing the effects of. |
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| starsearcher |
That's not true...jsut because 50% will be living in cities doesn't mean there won't be any land left. In fact there are PLENTY of places around the world that are virtually untouched by humans and full or seriources. Either way...by the time we populate this planet so much there's no more space for us this planet won't exist lol..or we'll have colonies on the moon...or Mars! :p
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| TheVrk |
| interesting news, thx:D |
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| PartEgurl |
"My suggestion is you stop thinking about the city and the suburbs and the exurbs and the rural area as separate entities and you really consider them as united ecosystems." - Bruce Mau
Starting on March 11, Mau has an exhibit at AGO called Massive Change, he has a revolutionary outlook on urban design, and global design in general, so anyone interested definitly should go. I am going to attempt to make a roadtrip to Toronto for this...
Bruce Mau is from Toronto too ! |
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