Trends : The Shifting Urban Economic Landscape, What Does It Mean for Cities?

Cities are the driving force of economic growth. According to the United Nations, more than half the world's people now live in urban areas - in towns and in cities of all sizes. By 2025, the urban population is expected to have grown by another billion people, a huge majority of them in developing countries. At that point, 2.5 billion people - more than half the world's urban population will likely live in the burgeoning cities of Asia. China is expected to have more than triple, and India double, the number of urbanites in the United States today. Urbanization is not new. For centuries, people have packed up and moved from their rural homes in search of better-paid urban livelihoods. But today's urban shift is unprecedented in scale and speed. It is no hyperbole to say that one is amid the most significant economic transformation the world has ever seen.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Dobbs, Richard, Remes, Jaana
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2013-11
Subjects:	AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES, AIR, AVERAGE TRAVEL TIME, BANKS, BUS, CAPITAL INVESTMENT, CAPITAL MARKETS, CAR, CITIES, CITY DEPARTMENTS, CITY LEADERS, CITY MANAGERS, CITY SERVICES, CONGESTION, CONGESTION PRICING, CONSUMER GOODS, COUNTRYSIDE, CRIME, DATA SOURCES, DEMAND FOR TRANSPORTATION, DISPOSABLE INCOME, DRIVERS, DRIVING, ECONOMIC CENTER, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC REFORM, ECONOMIES OF SCALE, EXCHANGE RATE, EXCHANGE RATES, FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS, FLOOR SPACE, FOOD POLICY, FOOD SECURITY, FUEL, HOMES, HOUSING, HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS, HUMAN SETTLEMENTS, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT, INDUSTRIALIZATION, INHABITANTS, INNOVATIONS, INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS, LANES, LARGE CITIES, LEARNING, LOCAL GOVERNMENT, MASS TRANSIT, MATURITY, MEGACITIES, METROPOLITAN AREAS, MOBILITY, MOBILITY GAP, MOBILITY RATES, MUNICIPAL, MUNICIPALITIES, NATURAL RESOURCES, NEIGHBORHOOD, NEIGHBORHOODS, POLLUTION, POPULATION GROWTH, PPPS, PRODUCTIVITY, PUBLIC SAFETY, PUBLIC SERVICES, PUBLIC TRANSPORT, PUBLIC TRANSPORT SYSTEM, PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, PURCHASING POWER, PURCHASING POWER PARITY, RAILROAD, RAILWAY, RAPID TRANSIT, REGIONAL PLANNING, RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS, RESIDENTIAL DENSITY, RIDERS, ROUTE, RURAL AREAS, SANITATION, SATELLITES, SERVICE DELIVERY, SEWAGE, SEWAGE SYSTEMS, SHELTER, SHOPS, SLUM, SMART PLANNING, SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL SERVICES, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, TOURISM, TOWNS, TRAFFIC, TRAFFIC CONTROL, TRAFFIC DELAYS, TRAFFIC JAMS, TRANSIT SYSTEM, TRANSIT SYSTEMS, TRANSPORT, TRANSPORT DECISIONS, TRANSPORT SYSTEMS, TRANSPORTATION, TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM, TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, TRUE, UNEMPLOYMENT, URBAN AREAS, URBAN DEVELOPMENT, URBAN ECONOMIES, URBAN ECONOMY, URBAN GROWTH, URBAN HOUSEHOLDS, URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE, URBAN LIVING, URBAN MANAGEMENT, URBAN MIGRATION, URBAN POOR, URBAN POPULATION, URBAN SPRAWL, URBANIZATION, UTILITIES, VILLAGES, WATER CONSUMPTION, WATER DEMAND, WEALTH,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/11/18868584/trends-shifting-urban-economic-landscape-mean-cities https://hdl.handle.net/10986/17589
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