Most of this growth occurred in the suburbs rather than the inner cities, Mr Glaeser adds, with the more prosperous metropolitan areas and those with better educated residents growing especially fast.

这些增加的城市人口大多安家于城郊而不是市中心，格莱泽补充道，更繁华的都市地区和教育程度比较高的居民区，人口增加特别迅速。

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In the past decade, poverty has increased more than twice as fast in the suburbs as it has in the cities.

过去十年，郊区贫穷率同城市的一样，增加了两倍还多。

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Obesity is spreading throughout Asia, especially among children, as people move to big cities, where they eat fattier fast foods and live a more sedentary lifestyle.

肥胖症已席卷了整个亚洲，尤其在儿童当中更为普遍。主要原因是人们搬进大城市生活，吃脂肪含量更多的快餐，过着很少运动的生活。

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Between 1990 and 2000 the surfaces of each of the 120 cities he and his team studied grew on average more than twice as fast as their populations.

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They say that China is fast moving from an agricultural society to an industrial one, with more farmers leaving the land for the cities.

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The population of the city already numbers more than half a million, and if you count outlying suburbs and independent cities, the total number of people in the metro area is fast approaching two million, more than double what it was just a decade ago.

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