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Quiz yourself on Urban Growth and the Global Urban WorldGet your flashcardsBuild my revision planTrack my progress🌆 The Greatest Migration in Human History
Today, more than half of humanity lives in cities. By 2050, it will be 7 in every 10 people. Somewhere right now, in Lagos or Dhaka or Mumbai or Kinshasa, a family is packing their possessions, saying goodbye to the village where their grandparents were born, and boarding a bus to a city where they have never lived. They are joining the greatest voluntary mass migration in human history — and it is happening, every single day, at a pace that the industrial revolution never came close to matching.
Consider this: every single week, 1.4 million people in the developing world move to a city. That is the entire population of Greater Manchester arriving in urban areas — every seven days. The scale is almost impossible to comprehend. And it is reshaping the world — creating extraordinary opportunity, spectacular wealth, cultural energy, and at exactly the same time, some of the most severe poverty, overcrowding, and environmental pressure the planet has ever seen.
This topic is about understanding why that is happening, where it is concentrated, and what it actually looks and feels like on the ground in one of its most dramatic locations: Lagos, Nigeria.
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