24 May 2005 11:45
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Half of humanity set to go urban
(via)"People do not realise how rural the world was until recently. That is changing." In 1900, only 14% of humanity lived in cities. In 1950, there were 83 cities with populations exceeding one million; but by 2000, this had risen to 411.
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