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Mapping 65 Years of Explosive Urban Growth
This delightfully user-friendly data viz tracks city population trajectories.
In 1950, only 30 percent of the world’s population lived in cities, compared with 54 percent in 2015. A new map by urban geographer Duncan Smith tracks the bursts in city populations that contributed to this growth.
Here’s Smith on the implication of global urbanization patterns, in a guide to his interactive data viz: