Open AccessMaking World Cities
Author(s) -
Michaël Goldman,
Wesley Longhofer
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
contexts
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1537-6052
pISSN - 1536-5042
DOI - 10.1525/ctx.2009.8.1.32
Subject(s) - tipping point (physics) , geography , population , spring (device) , urbanization , economic geography , history , sociology , demography , economic growth , mechanical engineering , electrical engineering , economics , engineering
In the spring of 2007, someone moved to a city. The move was a momentous one in terms of its demographic implications—it marked the tipping point of a new urban century in which more than half the world's population now lives in cities.
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