Majority of world now lives in cities

Aeon -At some unknown moment between 2010 and 2015, for the first time in human history, more than half the world’s population lived in cities. Urbanization is unlikely to reverse. Every week since, another 3 million country dwellers have become urbanites. Rarely in history has a small number of metropolises bundled as much economic, political and cultural power over such vast swathes of hinterlands. In some respects, these global metropolises and their residents resemble one another more than they do their fellow nationals in small towns and rural area. Whatever is new in our global age is likely to be found in cities.