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More and more of the world's population are living in towns or cities. The speed at which cities are growing in the less developed countries is alarming.
世界上越來越多的人口居住在城鎮或城市。那些欠發達國家的城市發展速度是令人擔憂的。
Between 1920 and 1960, big cities in developed countries increased two and a half times in size, but in other parts of the world the growth was eight times their size.
在1920年和1960年之間，大城市在發達國家中增加了2.5倍，但在世界有些城市卻以8倍的速度擴張。
The sheer size of growth is bad enough, but there are now also very disturbing signs of trouble in the comparison of percentages of people living in towns and percentages of people working in industry. During the 19th century, cities grew as a result of the growth of industry.
純粹的面積增長已經很糟了。然而目前有一個堪憂的問題，針對于居住在城鎮人口百分比與從事工業的人口百分比的比較。在第十九世紀的時候，城市的增長源于工業增長。
In Europe, the proportion of people living in cities was always smaller than that of the workforce working in factories.
在歐洲，居住在城市的人口比例總是小于在工廠工作的人口比例。
Now, however, the reverse is almost always true in the newly industrialized world: The percentage of people living in cities is much higher than the percentage working in industry.
然而，在新興的工業化國家情況正好相反。生活在城市的人口比例遠高于在工廠工作的比例。
Without a base of people working in industry, these cities cannot pay for their growth; there is not enough money to build adequate houses for the people that live there, let alone the new arrivals.
如果沒有在工業上勤勞工作的人們，這些城市就不能發展，就沒有充足的資金用來建筑人們的住房，更不用說外來的新居民了。
There has been little opportunity to build water supplies or other facilities. So the figures for the growth of towns and cities represent proportional growth of unemployment and underemployment, a growth in the number of hopeless and despairing parents and starving children.
這里能提供水資源或其他設施的能力已大大減少。因此，失業和就業不足的情況在城鎮和城市迅速增長的不協調比例下大大增加，也增加了很多絕望的父母和挨餓的兒童。
