Urbanization as Opportunity
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World Bank, Washington, DC
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Urbanization deserves urgent attention
from policy makers, academics, entrepreneurs, and social
reformers of all stripes. Nothing else will create as many
opportunities for social and economic progress. The
urbanization project began roughly 1,000 years after the
transition from the Pleistocene to the milder and more
stable Holocene interglacial. In 2010, the urban population
in developing countries stood at 2.5 billion. The developing
world can accommodate the urban population growth and
declining urban density in many ways. The most important
citywide projects -- successes like New York and Shenzhen --
show even more clearly how influential human intention can
be. The developing world can accommodate the urban
population growth and declining urban density in many ways.
One is to have a threefold increase in the average
population of its existing cities and a six fold increase in
their average built-out area. Another, which will leave the
built-out area of existing cities unchanged, will be to
develop 625 new cities of 10 million people -- 500 new
cities to accommodate the net increase in the urban
population and another 125 to accommodate the 1.25 billion
people who will have to leave existing cities as average
density falls by half.
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ACCESS TO TECHNOLOGY, CAPACITY BUILDING, CITIES, CLIMATE CHANGE, DEMOGRAPHIC INDICATORS, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, DEVELOPMENT POLICY, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC PROGRESS, FERTILITY, FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT, FUTURE GENERATIONS, FUTURE GROWTH, GDP PER CAPITA, GLOBAL POPULATION, GOOD GOVERNANCE, GOVERNMENT CAPACITY, LAND OWNERS, LAND USES, LIFE EXPECTANCY, LOCAL CAPACITY, MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS, POLICY DISCUSSIONS, POLICY MAKERS, POLICY RESEARCH, POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER, RATE OF GROWTH, RULE OF LAW, SHORT SUPPLY, SLUMS, SOCIAL AFFAIRS, SOCIAL INDICATORS, SOCIAL STRUCTURE, SPECIES, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS, TOTAL POPULATION, URBAN, URBAN AREA, URBAN DEVELOPMENT, URBAN EXPANSION, URBAN GROWTH, URBAN PLANNING, URBAN POPULATION, URBAN POPULATION GROWTH, URBAN RESEARCH, URBAN RESIDENTS, URBANIZATION, WORLD POPULATION, WORLD POPULATION PROJECTIONS