[news] Planet of Slums

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Mike Davis - New Left Review Sometime in the next year, a woman will give birth 
in the Lagos slum of Ajegunle, a young man will flee his village in west Java 
for the bright lights of Jakarta, or a farmer will move his impoverished family 
into one of Lima’s innumerable pueblos jovenes. The exact event is unimportant 
and it will pass entirely unnoticed. Nonetheless it will constitute a watershed 
in human history. For the first time the urban population of the earth will 
outnumber the rural. Indeed, given the imprecisions of Third World censuses, 
this epochal transition may already have occurred.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/4/24/162157/343