A World of City Dwellers

According to The Independent there are studies demonstrating that soon the world will predominantly be city dwellers. This is something that our world has never seen.

Humanity is about to undertake the greatest change of habitat in its entire history. Authoritative international reports to be published over the next months will show that, for the first time, we will soon be a predominantly urban species, with more people living in towns and cities than in the countryside.

Official United Nations figures show that the world's urban population has more than quadrupled over the past 50 years. Almost half of us inhabit towns and cities: within a quarter of a century 60 per cent of us will do so.

By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor Published: 31 December 2006