URBANISATION: "Dire warnings for world's megacities"

The Australian
26 October 2008

PREDICTIONS that cities would die are proving to be, like reports of Mark Twain's death, grossly exaggerated.

Big cities are getting bigger. More than half of the people on the planet now live in cities, a watershed reached for the first time this year.

Some 500 million more people will be urbanised over the next five years, at the rate of 30,000 a day.

There will be 100 new million-plus cities by 2025.

These were among the facts and projections reported by a range of international experts this week at the World Metropolis congress in Sydney...

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