More and more of the word’s population are living in towns or cities. The speed at which cities are growing in the less developed countries is______. Between 1920 and 1960 big cities in developed countries______ two and a half times in size, but in other parts of the world the growth was eight times their size.

They______ size of growth is bad enough, but there are now also very______ signs of trouble in the______ of percentages of people living in towns and percentages of people working in industry. During the nineteenth century cities grew as a result of the growth of industry. In Europe the ______ of people living in cities was always smaller than that of the ______ working in factories. Now, however, the_____ is almost always true in the newly industrialized world:_______________________.

Without a base of people working in industry, these cities cannot pay for their growth__________________. There has been little opportunity to build water supplies or other facilities. __________a growth in the number of hopeless and despairing parents and starving children.
alarming. increased sheer disturbing comparison proportion workforce reverse The percentage of people living in cities is much higher than the percentage working in industry. There is not enough money to build adequate houses for the people that live there, let alone the new arrivals. So the figures for the growth of towns and cities represent proportional growth of unemployment and underemployment