Why Co-living Will Matter Even More in Our Increasingly Urban Planet

Energy and sustainability, Essay, High Density, Politics and economics, SPACE10, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

21th century, Affordable Housing, Co-living, Collective housing, Density, Essay, Future cities, Future generations, Future tendencies, Housing price, Planetary urbanizations, Sharing, Social city, Social housing, Spatial Ideologies, Territory, Urban growth

Previously published in Medium -- https://medium.com/space10/could-co-living-be-the-solution-to-the-more-alarming-consequences-of-our-increasingly-urban-planet-76330a211b1a

During the next decade or so, our cities will swell almost unimaginably. By 2030, New York City is expected to be home to some 20m people, Shanghai to almost 31m and Tokyo to a staggering 38m. In fact, by the fourth decade of the 21st century, 70 percent of the world’s population will be urbanised — an increase from just over half today. And almost 800m of us will be packed into 41 megacities — classified as those with more than 10m inhabitants.