The history of urbanization, 3700 BC – 2000 AD
Watch as the world’s cities appear one-by-one over 6,000 years
Fascinating!! Take a break from appraising and check this out!!
By 2030, 75 percent of the world’s population is expected to be living in cities. Today, about 54 percent of us do. In 1960, only 34 percent of the world lived in cities.
Urbanization didn’t begin in the 1960’s. But until recently, tracking its history much further back than that was a challenging task. The most comprehensive collection of urban population data available, U.N. World urbanization prospects, goes back only to 1950. But thanks to a report released last week by a Yale-led team of researchers, it’s now possible to analyze the history of cities over a much longer time frame.
http://metrocosm.com/history-of-cities/
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419.99 Mile Marker
Just For Fun
When zealous marijuana enthusiasts kept stealing the “Mile 420” highway marker, the State of Colorado got creative.
Another obscure factoid from atlasobscura.com ;>
Since the recreational use of marijuana was made legal in Colorado in 2012, the “Mile 420” post became a hot commodity. So hot, it kept disappearing – and the Colorado Department of Transportation got tired of replacing it.
Check out the photos (and try not to click on too many of the other weird stuff) at:
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/41999-mile-marker
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