THE GROWTH OF GREAT CITIES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7733, 1 March 1909, Page 4

THE GROWTH OF GREAT CITIES.

The century of cities i?, the twentieth century, in 1801 there were only 22 European cities with more than 100,OuO inhabitants. Those cities weie J_iuiidon, Dublin, Paris, Marseilles, Lyons, Amsterdam, Berlin, Jiamburg, Vienna, Naples, Rome, Milan, Venice, Palermo, Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Warsaw, Copenhagen, and Constantinople. Of these only two had more than half a million inhabitants, London and Paris. At the present time Europe contains seven cities with a million or more. These are London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Constantinople, while America has three cities with more than half a million inhabitants. These are New York with over 4.000,000, about 1,500,000 less ci'an London; Chicago, with over 2,000,000; Philadelphia, with over 1,000,000. In. Asia also there aro several cities with populations exceeding a million. The population of the great cities of'antiquity is not accurately known. Seleucia has been credited with 600,000 inhabitants, Alexandria- with 600,000 or 700,000. Home, in the reign of Augustus, with 800,000; Carthage with 700.000, but these estimates are little more than guesses.