Virtually all of the growth in the world's population for the foreseeable future will take place in the cities and towns of the developing world. Over the next twenty years, most developing countries will for the first time become more urban than rural. The benefits from urbanization cannot be overlooked, but the speed and sheer scale of this transformation present many challenges. Drawing from a wide variety of data sources, many of them previously inaccessible, Cities Transformed explores the implications ... Cities Transformed: Demographic Change and Its Implications |