![]() Indeed, that countries around the world have such wildly divergent definitions of “city” has long flummoxed demographers, urban planners, and development specialists. ![]() Far from allowing an apples to apples comparison, those differing thresholds mean that putting Danish cities and Japanese cities side by side would be more like a blueberries to watermelons comparison.Īs a result, says Lewis Dijkstra, the European Commission’s lead researcher on the project, “We’ve never known how many cities there are.” In Denmark, 200 people living near each other constitutes a city. That startling fact is thanks to a four-year effort from the European Commission and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to answer a deceptively difficult question: What, exactly, is a city?ĭifficult, because no two countries answer it the same way. ![]() Groundbreaking new mapping research released this week at World Urban Forum 10 concludes that there are around 10,000 cities worldwide - and as many followed Shenzhen’s trajectory as they did Rome’s. Today, it’s a megacity with over 12 million people. In the 1970s, China’s start-up capital was a fishing village. While Rome may not have been built in a day, Shenzhen pretty much was.
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