Saturday, January 5, 2008

City Planet: Stewart Brand



Just finished watching this fascinating talk that Stewart Brand gave at Google on global urbanization--the movement of people from rural areas to cities. 1.3 million people are moving to cities every week, Brand tells us, which adds up to the largest demographic shift in history. Brand explores a lot of the positive implications of these trends on individual opportunity, wealth creation, world population, and on the environment.

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Blogger whiterabbit said...

update: in this talk I think Brand says that China has 180 cities with over 1 million population. In fact it's over 200 now.

January 9, 2008 at 5:02 AM  

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