Future Cities
How these connect
Twenty-first-century urbanisation and what it relates to. Every line is an evidence-backed relation, and the arrangement is fixed — this address draws this picture, today and next year.
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- Expand Urban cooling demand — 1 more
- Expand Sub-Saharan African urban growth — 1 more
Every relation drawn, in words4
- Agglomeration · affects · Twenty-first-century urbanisation
Measured productivity gains from density are the economic reason people continue to move into cities.
- Urban cooling demand · affects · Twenty-first-century urbanisation
Most projected growth in cooling electricity demand falls in the emerging economies where most urban growth is also projected.
- Degree of Urbanisation · assesses · Twenty-first-century urbanisation
The grid-based method is the instrument by which the 2025 revision measures how urbanised the world is.
- Sub-Saharan African urban growth · part_of · Twenty-first-century urbanisation
Three of the seven countries projected to add most of the world's new city dwellers to 2050 are in sub-Saharan Africa.