CityMayors.com said last year that in 2008, for the first time most of the world, 3.8 billion people, lived in urban areas. The NYU Stern Urbanization Project seems to think this is a good thing, or at least that its a wave to be ridden in such a way as to advance human progress.

David Miller, former mayor of Toronto and now a Future of Cities Global Fellow at NYU Polytechnic Institute will talk about urbanization with Paul Romer, director of Urbanization Project.

(Registration here)