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The majority of the world s population will soon live in urban rather than rural areas. Adding a spatial dimension to population estimates, a new study finds that as much as three percent of the Earth s land area has already been urbanized, which is double previous estimates.RUMP delineates urban boundaries across the planet ranging in size from 1 km 2 to the largest of urban extents, Tokyo, which includes more than 500 connected settlements and is the largest urbanized area in the world at 30,000 km 2.
The first point to note is that the intensive urbanization of the industrial nations. which occurred in the past is currently under way in todayâs developing countries. Although the rate of urbanization in the developing world is proceeding at a fairly. comparable rate as that of the industrial nations in the heyday of their rapid. urbanization, the rate of population growth of cities in developing countries as. distinct from urbanization is rather unprecedented (Songsore,2003a ;Davis,