The future of cities: what is the global agenda?
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An extract from the report commissioned as part of the UK Government’s Foresight Future of Cities Project.
By Emily Moir, Tim Moonen and Greg Clark
What will the urbanised world of the future look like?
By 2050, it is expected that nearly 70% of the world’s population will live in urban areas. Recent reports by the UN anticipate some of the key differences between today’s urban world and that of 2050:
There will be more cities…
The UN recorded that there were 1,551 cities worldwide in 2010. B...
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