# Prof. Paul Romer and Research Scholar Brandon Fuller's research on urban populations is highlighted

1 Faculty News February 20, 2014 ![](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_044915.jpg?itok=_uDju1QJ)>

Excerpt from [The Atlantic Cities](http://www.theatlanticcities.com/housing/2014/02/developing-worlds-urban-population-could-triple-2210/8431/) -- "A new working paper by my colleagues Brandon Fuller and [Paul Romer](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/paul-romer) of NYU’s Marron Institute projects that the world’s urban population will reach 9.8 billion people by 2210, with nearly 87 percent of the 11.3 billion people on Earth living in cities."

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