Eine Welt, die sich in die Städte verlagert

>Projections suggest that by 2050, cities will be the main settlement type in 127 countries, including many across sub-Saharan Africa.

What’s considered rural, town, or city?

With buildings for vertical farming, so much land won’t have to be wasted for growing food, and food can be grown in cities.

Vietnam through the years, still ‘towns’.

What does „the most common settlement type“ mean? I would guess by number of inhabitants. In which case France is so blatantly wrong that I don’t trust this map at all.

And people wonder about real estate prices

Challenge: find the country without data

Increasingly lumpenized Proletariat.

(/s)

France, rural ?

I love it when the borders on the map are so thick that I can’t even see the color of my own country

The interesting thing that not many people talk about is that many „towns“, nowadays and becoming reclassified as „cities“, due to large population growth, either from the larger cities nearby or through immigration or refugees altogether.

I used to live in a small town, then it became a town, and today it’s a city after 2 decades. I didn’t move throughout this time, it’s just that the reclassification and ultimately gentrification has caused it to become this way.

It’s impressive how unchanging/stable Germany, Italy, Botswana, Guyana, Ireland, France, Austria and Poland are.

Yeah, the ways different countries manage municipality divisions, levels of governance, and how they change over time are wildly inconsistent. In some places large population centers inherently develop into city status, while in others a large „city“ may be divided into hundred of village-like municipalities, large numbers of people may technically live in areas with no municipal legal structure below the region/county, and all of this can vary wildly within a singly nation, and nations can change how they manage this dramatically over time, sometimes with drastic bursts of redefinition. France has a clear, hierarchical, and almost uniformly applied system of administrative division that goes all the way down to the commune level, which is essentially the equivalent of a hamlet in other countries. But almost every bit of land in metropolitan France falls within one of 34,826 communes, which have a mean population of around 2K people, while the USA simply has no equivalent, with the state as the only universally applied administrative division, and no form of more local government guaranteed under law, and some states almost entirely lack municipal governance structures outside of heavily urbanized areas. Nations are just entirely incomparable on this level. If this map was showing what percentage of residents lived in the equivalents of urbanized cities, towns/villages/hamlets, and unincorporated rural areas according to some generalizable definition, that’d be cool, but this is just silliness.

SWEDEN!!!!

Cities suck

World needs better urban planning if more people are going to live in cities.