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For the first time in human history, more than half the world’s population is urban. A fundamental aspect of this transformation has been the emergence of gia

As urbanization continues, and even accelerates, scientists estimate that by 2015 the world will have up to 60 ‘megacities’ – urban areas with more than f

For the first time in history, the majority of the world's population lives in cities, the result of a rapid process of urbanization that started in the second

A systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations. Growth has been both an unspok