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Jun 2, 2006

"Ironically, rural America is viewed by a growing number of people as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have!" --Don Dillman

Urban Takes Over Rural

Sometime this 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.