Urban Legend
Rema Nagarajan , TOI Crest 26 December 2009
The year 2008 marked a decisive turning point in the history of humanity: for the first time ever, the urban population exceeded those living in
 Contrary to popular perception, only a third of the world’s 200 million international migrants moved from the developing to the developed world |
rural areas. In all, the number of people living in towns and cities that year was estimated at 3.3 billion. This is expected to grow rapidly and touch 5 billion by 2030. Combined with a rapidly ageing global population, this megatrend is likely to have a significant impact on the way we live.
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