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Sumitomo Forestry Co. will build the world's tallest wooden high-rise—70 stories, 350 meters, comprised of 90% wood, and to be called the W350.

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Our future is urban: Future of Cities P1

Cities are where most of the world's wealth is generated. Cities often decide the fates of elections. Cities increasingly define and control the flow of capital, people, and ideas between countries.

Cities are the future of nations.

Next scheduled update for this forecast

2021-12-25

Forecast references

The following popular and institutional links were referenced for this forecast:

ISN ETH Zurich

Resources

NCBI

Urbanization and Slum Formation

UTNE

Megacities: The Past, Present and Predictions for the Future

MOMA - Uneven Growth

Uneven Growth

National Intelligence Council

ALTERNATIVE WORLDS

Quartz

Megacities, not nations, are the world’s dominant, enduring social structures

Rollins

Cosmopolitan Cities and Nation States: Open Economics, Urban Dynamics, and Government in East Asia

Wiley Online Library

Bright lights, big cities? Metropolisation, intergovernmental relations, and the new Federal urban policy in Switzerland

UN-Habitat

The State of European Cities in Transition 2013

Atlantic Council

The Security of Cities: Ecology and Conflict on an Urbanizing Planet

YouTube - TED

Benjamin Barber: Why mayors should rule the world

Washington Post

The future of innovation belongs to the mega-city

McKinsey and Company

Urban world: Cities and the rise of the consuming class

The Telegraph

The rise of the mega-city will change the global economy forever

ISN

Resources

New York Times

A New Map for America

Book | If Mayors Ruled the World

If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities

Atlantic Council

Capitalizing on the Urban Future

World Bank

Urban population (% of total)

Wikipedia

Urbanization

New York Times

China’s Great Uprooting: Moving 250 Million Into Cities

Economist

Where China’s future will happen

New York Times

As Beijing Becomes a Supercity, the Rapid Growth Brings Pains

Bloomberg

Global Megacities

United Nations

World’s population increasingly urban with more than half living in urban areas

World Urbanization Prospects - Population Division

Globest

What's Really Driving The Urbanization Trend?

FAO

Driving forces

Morphcode

Global Trends of Urbanization

Forbes

Urbanization Will Change The (Developing) World

TED

Parag Khanna: How megacities are changing the map of the world

WebUrbanist

Cities of Tomorrow: Refugee Camps Require Longer-Term Thinking

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Quantumrun

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Sumitomo Forestry Co. will build the world's tallest wooden high-rise—70 stories, 350 meters, comprised of 90% wood, and to be called the W350.

Our future is urban: Future of Cities P1

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