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More Urban World
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The headlines tell us that the world is now more urban than rural. Surely this fact ought to have consequences that call for new attitudes and public policies. However, as is often the case with profound change, what actually is happening — and how we should view these changes — is extremely murky. From one point of view, the migration of people from the countryside to the city is simply the latest chapter in a story that has played worldwide over the last several centuries. First in the most nations of the West, and now in the developing world, as more efficient agriculture has reduced the number of people needed in the fields, the rise of new urban economies has drawn them to cities. Every time this push-pull phenomenon has shifted into high , whether in London in the Nineteenth century or in Mumbai today, there have been wrenching dislocations followed by attempts on the part of public authorities to stop or slow the Process.
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