Population, cities and urban infrastructure
Sep 02, 2019
3 minutes
Words by
Philip Vivian and
Philip Oldfield
Guest editors
10% of the global population lived in cities in 1900 50% of the global population lived in cities in 2011 75% will be living in cities in 2050 75% of global natural resources are consumed by cities 80% of global greenhouse emissions are produced by cities 25M Australia’s population today 42M Australia’s predicted population in 2056
The nineteenth century was a century of empires, the twentieth century
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