There has been little opportunity
to build water supplies or other facilities.
So the figures for the growth of towns
and cities represent proportional growth
of unemployment and underemployment,
a growth in the number of hopeless
and despairing parents and starving children.
Now the passage will be read again.
W: More and more of the world’s population
are living in towns or cities.
The speed at which cities are growing
in the less developed countries is alarming.
Between 1920 and 1960,
big cities in developed countries
increased two and a half times in size,
but in other parts of the world
the growth was eight times their size.
The sheer size of growth is bad enough,
but there are now also very disturbing signs of trouble
in the comparison of percentages of people
living in towns
and percentages of people working in industry.
During the 19th century,
cities grew as a result of the growth of industry.
In Europe,
the proportion of people
living in cities was always smaller
than that of the workforce working in factories.
Now, however,
the reverse is almost always true
in the newly industrialized world:
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