Last month, the journal Science published a special issue examining the challenges and opportunities of an urbanizing world. Titled “Urban Planet” and featuring an image of clouds wafting across skyscrapers in Dubai, the issue opened with an eye-catching statistic: “More than half of the world’s people now live in cities.”
Of course, that number would be even more impressive if it were actually true.
— UNDark
According to the article, the statistic that half the world's population lives in cities is misleading. Many of these people live in towns and small urban enclaves, not the bustling metropolises conjured by the stat.
The author argues that such thinking makes one overlook sprawling fringe areas, which face challenges that require as much attention as a bustling city.
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I bet they count the suburbs and tiny country towns in that 50%. The whole urbanist propaganda is very misleading, and led by far right developers in liberal journalist clothing (CItyLab)
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