This is the first era of human history when more of us live in cities than not. That’s what we’ve often been told in recent years,
According to reaearch the specifics do depend on what kinds of urbanized areas you count as proper cities. Still, this would seem to mark an important inflection point in human history, the past five millennia of which has also been the history of great cities rising and falling, in absolute terms but also relative to one another in size, power, and influence. You can see this animated in the video above from cartographical-historical
#YouTube Ollie Bye, previously featured here on Open Culture for his visualizations of the history of London, of the British Empire, and of the entire world.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kptMVQRud5c&embeds_referring_euri=https%3…
https://www.britannica.com/topic/list-of-cities-and-towns-in-the-United…