{"id":46276,"date":"2012-04-20T09:20:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T14:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=46276"},"modified":"2012-04-20T09:20:18","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T14:20:18","slug":"snapshot-of-global-urbanization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/04\/20\/snapshot-of-global-urbanization\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapshot of Global Urbanization"},"content":{"rendered":"

Urban Demographics<\/a> posted some graphs from the UN’s\u00a0State of the World’s Cities 2010\/2011<\/a><\/em>\u00a0report on global urbanization trends. A snapshot of urbanization in 11 countries:<\/p>\n

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You can see a few other notable trends here that illustrate various national trajectories, as Phil McDermott at Cities Matter<\/a> points out. For instance, notice that while Russia underwent rapid urbanization between 1950 and 1980, it has leveled off since then. Similarly, Indonesia’s urbanization slowed significantly in the late ’90s and has continued at a much slower pace since then. We also see quite different patterns between the world’s two most populous nations: While China’s urbanization rate sped up in the early ’90s (after urbanization actually dipped in the ’70s), India has experienced fairly slow urbanization.<\/p>\n

Credit Suisse<\/a> released a report on urbanization and emerging markets, if you’re interested in the impacts of urbanization on a wide array of economic development indicators, from electricity and steel consumption to projections of future housing needs to incomes and standards of living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Urban Demographics posted some graphs from the UN’s\u00a0State of the World’s Cities 2010\/2011\u00a0report on global urbanization trends. A snapshot of urbanization in 11 countries: You can see a few other notable trends here that illustrate various national trajectories, as Phil McDermott at Cities Matter points out. For instance, notice that while Russia underwent rapid urbanization […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[135,260,1813,1811,1772,1784,1785,1816,1824,1799,341],"class_list":["post-46276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-demography","tag-international-comparisons","tag-nation-brazil","tag-nation-britainthe-u-k","tag-nation-china","tag-nation-india","tag-nation-indonesia","tag-nation-iran","tag-nation-mexico","tag-nation-russia","tag-ruralurban"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46282,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46276\/revisions\/46282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}