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Several hundred million more people are expected to move to cities in East Asia over the next 20 years as economies shift from agriculture to manufacturing and services, according to a World Bank report 
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Scoop.it!
Many urban neighborhoods are places of concentrated poverty, and it's killing opportunity in the US. American cities are growing, and as they grow, they're adding lots of high-poverty neighborhoods. Nearly three times as many "high-poverty" census tracts existed in 2010 as in 1970. That's unsettling on its face but even more so when you see the havoc a poor neighborhood can wreak on a resident's chances at a good life. Forget gentrification — this is a bigger problem. The chart above tallies up the people living in these neighborhoods in 1970 and 2010. What it shows is that the number of people living in high-poverty neighborhoods — those with poverty rates of 30 percent or more — has roughly doubled since 1970. That's because these neighborhoods of concentrated poverty have a tendency to stay that way, even while new ones sprout up. Tags: urban, unit 7 cities, housing, economic, poverty, place, socioeconomic, neighborhood.
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Pearl river delta
Cities in this region have experienced spectacular growth; they are at the heart of China's manufacturing and exporting boom. For example, Shenzen was a small city with about 10,000 residents in 1980 but is now a megacity with over 10 million people. China's SEZs (Special Economic Zones). Cities that were once separate entities have coalesced into a large conurbation and if they are counted as one, it's now the largest metropolitan area. Cities like London and New York become global cities over hundreds of years--this happened in one generation. Click here for 5 infographics showing East Asia's massive urban growth.
Tags: APHG, urban, industry, manufacturing, economic, unit 7 cities, megacities, China, East Asia.