Tag: World Urbanization Prospects

• The largest city on Earth: six thousand years of the world’s biggest cities

  

  From Uruk to Dhaka: I followed the title of the world’s largest city through 85 snapshots from 3700 BC to 2050. 30 cities have held it, Chinese capitals for most of seven centuries, London for about 99 years, and the centre of the urban world has wandered from Mesopotamia to the Atlantic and back to…

  Tristan Hotham

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  Chandler, cities, data visualisation, history, London, maps, population, urban history, World Urbanization Prospects