The State of the World Atlas [ff]. Dan Smith
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believed to live in slums, almost one-third of
the urban population.
• Mexico City sits on a
drained lake-bed of
saturated clay that is
subsiding as it continues
to dry: in 100 years, parts
of the city have sunk
about 9 metres.
• Its metro system is the
world’s fourth largest and
cheapest to use.
Mexico City
Comparative wealth of city dwellers
Number of hours someone needed to work
for the average city wage in order to buy
an iPod Nano (8GB version) in 2009
New York
9 hours
Tokyo
12 hours
London
11 hours
Paris
15 hours
• About 45% of New
Yorkers speak a
language other than
English at home.
• The urban legend of
alligators in Manhattan
sewers grew in the
1960s based on a
colourful account
by a retired
city official.
New York
• More than 300 languages are
spoken in London.
• It has the world’s oldest and
second most extensive
underground railway network.
• 20% of Parisians were
born outside France.
• The city receives 28 million
tourists a year, 17 million
from outside France.
London
Paris
• Lagos has no overall city
administration.
• The city population is
growing at the rate of
1 new person every
2 minutes.
Lagos
São Paulo
• “Sampa” is the
world’s largest Japanese
city outside Japan, the
largest Spanish city outside
Spain, the largest Lebanese
city outside Lebanon.
São Paulo
46.5 hours
Istanbul
56 hours
Shanghai
56.5 hours
Q 32 Urbanization
34
• Istanbul has 18% of
Turkey’s population and
produces over 25% of
national GDP.
• Its population grew
tenfold in the second half
of the 20th century.
Population density: people per square kilometre:
20,000 or more
10,000 – 19,999
6,000 – 9,999
Size of metropolitan area:
Cities around the world
2011 or most recent data
metro area =1,000 km2
(outer ring)
3,000 – 5,999
fewer than 3,000
city area =100 km2
(inner ring)
• Shanghai has the
world’s most extensive
underground railway
network.
• It has the world’s
busiest container port.
• The Shanghai Stock
exchange ranks third in
the world by trading
volume.
• 99% of residents are
Han Chinese.
• 16 major languages
are widely spoken in
Mumbai.
• With less than 2% of
India’s population,
Mumbai pays over 33%
of its taxes.
• About half of residents
live in unregistered
accommodation and lack
sanitation.
• As Pakistan’s financial and
commercial capital, Karachi
contributes 25% of national tax
revenue.
• The city’s population grows at
the rate of 1 person a minute.
Tehran
Istanbul
Cairo
Shanghai
Tokyo
• 99% of Tokyo’s
population is Japanese by
birth.
• 40% of the city is built
on landfill.
Mumbai
• Tehran’s population has grown
fivefold in 50 years.
• Air pollution (80% cars, 20%
industrial) kills about 10,000
people a year; in 2006, 3,600
died in the month of October
alone.
Jakarta
• Almost 20% of Cairo’s
buildings date from
1997 or later.
• 60% of the
population is aged
under 30.
• Up to 25,000
people a year die
from air pollution.
• 40% of Jakarta is below sea
level.
• At least 35% and
perhaps as many as
80%