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The Future of Our Cities – Megacities and Urban Agglomerations.– Urbanization continues: China is currently undergoing the greatest urbanization and migration in the history of the world – some 150 million migrants. The Yangtze Delta is the fastest growing urban area in the world. Here are some thoughts about consequences and potential future solutions.

General @ 04 Dec 2006 03:45 pm by Benjamin Hartmann

Watching the current developments and future prospects in East Asia, the thought of Megacities suggests itself. Especially in Asia, the future will bring growing urban agglomerations and an increasing amount of megacities. It is estimated, that 300 million Chinese will migrate to urban areas through 2015. Suzhou, for example, is a major metropolis of 5 million people constructed in 15 years on the model of Singapore, which it has now left behind in size. (more…)

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The Future of our Cities – The Ecocity. — Ecocities are already reality. But what is to come next?

General @ 30 Nov 2006 07:04 pm by Benjamin Hartmann

Our cities are growing. The UN estimates that up to 61 percent of the world’s population will life in cities by 2030 – pushing up urban population from three billion today to a total of five billion. By 2015, approximately 350 million people will live in megacities. As a consequence of this accelerated urbanization, the transformation of cultivated land and nature into urban landscapes continues and jeopardizes the resources for future generations. Keyword: sustainability! Solution: Ecocity? (more…)

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