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The Landscape of Global Urbanization

May 2, 2017 By Aaron M. Renn

I gave a lecture recently in New York on urbanization and global cities. I’m sharing a couple of segments of that as podcasts.

The first is a short introduction to global urbanization. I talk about the radical rural-urban shift in human living patterns, the increase in city size (especially the growth of megacities), and the challenges arising from urban growth in the developing world.

This podcast is a good basic introduction to the topic that will be very helpful for anyone to get an understanding of the basics. Some of the stats on global urbanization are stunning.

If the audio player doesn’t display for you, click over to listen on Soundcloud.

https://soundcloud.com/aaronrenn/the-landscape-of-global-urbanization

If you haven’t already, please click over to iTunes and leave a rating on my podcast, because this helps people to discover it and check it out. Thanks.

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  1. Anthony Kasongamulilo says

    May 26, 2017 at 1:57 pm

    In theory urbanization don’t just happen as a deliberate government policy decision to urbanize the rural. Despite the best efforts by local authorities to slow urbanization down through land-use regulations and by-laws. Its the economy that detects the mass movement of the population through social-economic forces such as cheap labor, export demands and consumerism

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