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What are the most important issues in urban studies today? The UN has declared that the world population reached the figure of seven billion people on 31 October 31, 2011. For the last two years, more than half of the global population has lived in cities. The UN picked a baby born in a Mumbai slum as the seventh billion citizen of the world, but it could just as well have chosen a child born in kampong Ledok Ratmakan in Yogyakarta or any other Indonesian urban kampong. After all, Indonesia has the fourth largest population in the world and rapid urbanization is also an important characteristic of this country, and has been a constant factor for at least the last century and a half.
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