Well the causes of urbanisation are basically the industrial revolution whichstarted I suppose in English cities. But when Londons East End started toindustrialise, then obviously they need hundreds of thousands of workers torun the factories and the massive infrastructure of the port city which isLondon which for certainly a century or so was one of the busiest ports in theentire world. So the amount of people who had to come from the Britishcountryside or from other countries altogether, often places which had beenpreviously colonised by Britain. These people were all drawn towards thecentre of industry and therefore we get two things happening. One is amassive overcrowding therefore a likeliness for easily transmitted diseasesor just a lack of cleanliness that you might find in a food market with toomany rats, but the other side of the problem is, is so many communities whoare entirely different in their cultural outlook living next door to each otherand sometimes this works very well but other times we can see eruptions ofsporadic violence or malcontent amongst different social groups.And could you speculate on how cities will develop in the future？I think cities will probably develop upwards in the same way as we have seenin American cities that buildings will become taller with better security guardsand more windows so that people can live in the city with the convenience ofthe local 7-11 without having to encounter the chock-a-block street side lifethat you will find in any modern metropolis.And lets talk about some global issues. Could you describe how noticeablethe gap between the rich and the poor is in your country？Yes, its certainly very noticeable and I would quote a prominent conservativepolitician who said "The homeless！ Oh theyre the people we step overwhen we come out of the opera".
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