MILLION CITIES.
Si£r S'li' !" eaid Cnted b , |>© in a hundred years' time a city with 47,000,000 inhabftante —as. many people as there arc irT+kf British Isles to-day. *■„ city is f jk then dispute with New York for thl place of first city m the wor.d, as Lon-don-does now. For the present there is httle to choose between Greater Lor! don and Greater. New York. Each has a popuiation of a little under 7,500,000 Which is to be the third city? Chicago is soon .to that ulaoe wilt 1 aris but Chicago is - not growing as was thought she would. And quite possibly the third city a hundred years hence will not be in the Northern Hemisphere. We are apt in our calculations to forget Buenos Avres which has come by leaps and bounds near 2 000,000 mark. And bSth Sydney and Mei-pourne, in Australia will be million cities m the near future!
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17880, 28 September 1923, Page 8
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152MILLION CITIES. Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17880, 28 September 1923, Page 8
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