# Senior Research Scholar Shlomo Angel discusses the Urbanization Project's research on the growth of 120 cities

1 Faculty News October 28, 2014 ![Fast Co.Exist logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032575.jpg?itok=46MrQdwv)>

Excerpt from [Fast Co.Exist](http://www.fastcoexist.com/3037572/visualized/watch-as-the-worlds-biggest-cities-explode-in-size-over-the-last-200-years) -- "'What we've been able to show is that there's been unbelievable expansion,' says Shlomo 'Solly' Angel, a senior researcher at the NYU Stern Urbanization Project. 'This gives planners and policymakers an idea of by how much cities are going to grow. In sub-Saharan Africa, for example, cities are going to grow seven or eight times between now and 2040.'"

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