ABSTRACT
In 1950, the pattern of urbanization across the globe was rather easy to describe. Most people in developed countries lived in urban areas whereas most people in less-developed countries did not. Table 19.1 shows that in 1950 more than half of the population of the developed countries lived in urban areas but only about one in six in the so-called Third World; 160 million more urban people lived in developed countries than in the less-developed world.
