In last Sunday's Observer there was a feature by Deyan Sudjic, director of London's Design Museum, on how cities are taking over the world. Sudjic studied 6 of the world's key cities over a period of two years and his findings are compiled in a new book called Endless City, published by Phaidon.
Here are a few hair-raising, or as the French would say, "décoiffant", statistics:
76% of Mexico's population live in urban areas
16m2 is the average living space in Shanghai
88% of homes in Berlin are rented
$1.3 million is the average cost of an apartment in Manhattan
19% of New Yorkers live below the poverty line
54.7 million people live in Greater Tokyo
1hr24minutes is the average daily commute in London
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