When is World Cities Day?
Tuesday October 31stAs the United Nations focuses on global urbanization, the United Nations focuses on global urbanization on October 31st is World Cities Day. The United Nations promotes urbanization, but the UN addresses the challenges that urbanization faces. Cities in collaboration on sustainable urbanization.
Urbanization refers to the increasing number of people who live in urban areas.. This trend is a relatively recent development.. At one time, a vast number of the world's population lived in rural areas. Over 90% of the world's population lived in rural areas in 1800. Many high-income countries began to see a change during the 19th century. People were pushed into urban areas as a result of increasing urbanization.
This pattern was particularly true in the United States. The majority of the population in urban areas by the year 2000 was 80%. Half of the world's population lives in cities, on a global basis. Some of the world's most populated cities include:: Among the world's most populated cities are::
- Tokyo – 37 million
