Unlikely Boomtowns: The World’s Hottest Cities reading answers

Megacities like London, New York and Tokyo loom large in our imaginations. They are still associated with fortune,

fame and the future. They can dominate national economies and politics. The last fifty years has been their era, as

the number of cities with more than ten million people grew from two to twenty. But with all respect to the

science-fiction novelists who have envisioned a future of urban giants, their day is over. The typical growth rate of

the population within a megacity has slowed from more than eight percent in the 1980s to less than half that over

the last five years, and numbers are expected to be static in the next quarter-century. Instead, the coming years

will belong to a smaller, far humbler relation – the Second City.

• Unlikely Boomtowns: The World’s Hottest Cities reading answers
• Psychological Value of Space
• Ditching that Saintly Image

1.  B
2. F
3. G
4. C
5. E
6. F
7. F
8. R
9. G
10. H
11. O
12. M
13. C
14. IV
15. VIII
16. VI
17. X
18. IX
19. II
20. VII
21. I
22. H
23. F
24. C
25. A
26. E
27. B
28. A
29. D
30. B
31. B
32. A
33. C
34. TRUE
35. NOT GIVEN
36. TRUE
37. FALSE
38. NOT GIVEN
39. TRUE
40. NOT GIVEN

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