urbanization

Urbanization is often touted as a solution to the world’s various ills. It’s been heralded as a fix for issues such as poverty, mass migration, and climate change. Cities will make our societies healthier and more productive. Cities will make us happy. Cities are our inevitable future—or so we’re told.

Long-standing discriminatory policy denies many migrant workers the opportunity to settle down in the cities with their families.

The United Nations has released population data confirming the continuation of long-term global demographic trends and a larger global population than previously projected.

Peasant victims of urbanization and development protest land seizures in Hubei, China.