CITB02H3 Chapter PDF: Planet of Slums by: Mike Davis
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Planet of slums: mike davis: for the first time the urban population of the earth will outnumber the rural; indeed, given the imprecisions of third world censuses, this epochal transition may have already occurred. 95% of this final buildout of humanity will occur in the urban areas of developing countries, whose population will double to nearly 4 billion over the next generation. Indeed, the combined urban population in china, india, and brazil already roughly equals that of europe plus north america. In 1995, only tokyo had incontestably reached that threshold; by 2025, according to the far eastern economic review, asia alone could have ten or eleven conurbations that large, including jakarta (24. 9 million), dhaka (25 million) and karachi (26. 5 million). In china (officially 43% urban in 1997), the number of official cities has soared from. But the great metropolises, despite extraordinary growth, have actually declined in relative share of urban population.
