Assorted Links - Booming Metropolis

• 12 Megacities That Will Boom In The Next 15 Year (by Business Insider)

#12 Rio de Janeiro

#5 Buenos Aires

#3 Mexico City

#2 São Paulo

#1 London

• The 16 Greatest Cities in Human History by population criteria only (by Business Insider) - via On Street Level

• Urban World: Mapping The Economic Power Of Cities - a not
  not so new
  report from the McKinsey Global Institute explores 600 urban centers over the next 15 years15 years. "[...] the center of gravity of the urban world will move south and, even more decisively, east (thanks Waldery Rodrigues Junior for the tip)

Global cities of the future: An interactive map (by Mckinsey)

• Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox write about The Census’ Fastest-Growing Cities Of The Decade (in the US) via New Geography
  
  
• School Troubles in a Booming Metropolis - It's a good post series connecting demographic, housing and land use contexts of troubled public schools in the City of Vancouver and its suburbs (Parts 1, 2 and 3.....) - via Planning Pool