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__(36)__. Between 1920 and 1960 big cities in developed countries__(37)__two and a half times in size, but in other parts of the world the growth was eight times their size.
The__(38)__size of growth is bad enough, but there are now also very__(39)__signs of trouble in the__(40)__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__(41)__of people living in cities was always smaller than that of the__ (42)__working in factories. Now, however, the__(43)__is almost always true in the newly industrialized world:(44).
Without a base of people working in industry, these cities cannot pay for their growth; __(45)__. There has been little opportunity to build water supplies or other facilities. __(46)__,a growth in the number of hopeless and despairing parents and starving children.