19 Cities with 20 Million people in the next century

By Alexander Rose @zander

Dec 5, 02008

Bryan Campen let me know about this new piece by the founder of the TED conference, Richard Saul Wurman called 19.20.21. It is bascially an animated info-graphic site looking through the main demographic and resource trends, and how they will play out over the next 90 years. Very well done.

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