Elian Somers

Metropolis

Noorderlicht, Groningen, 2011

On 23 May, 2007, the world was able to celebrate the beginning of the urban millennium. On that date, for the first time in history more of the world's population lived in a city than in a rural area: 3.3 billion people, on just three percent of the earth's surface. Metropolis – City Life in the Urban Age is the second part of a diptych which examines the consequence of this development, first for the countryside, and now for the city.

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