Austin Williams

Austin Williams is director of the Future Cities Project thinktank.

History and belonging: life in a Chinese mega-city

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In the last four decades, hundreds of millions of Chinese have moved into cities. Today, two thirds of the country live in urban areas (compared to just one third in 1985), and many of these are hubs with tens of millions of people – mega-cities that many in the West have never heard of before.