Earlier this year, the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution published a report entitled The Urban Environment. The official summary of this vast document begins with the following startling assertion;
For the first time in human history, more than half the world’s population lives in urban areas. Around the world, mega and super cities with tens of millions of inhabitants are rapidly expanding. In the UK, over 80% of the population already lives in urban areas, and the country is going through a new phase of urban expansion and regeneration that will affect the way we live for decades to come.
I say ‘startling’ because I doubt whether many people in the UK think of their homeland as being predominantly urban. Continue reading »
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