Two hundred years ago, London became the first city to surpass Rome in size and population, the first modern city to reach a million inhabitants and the world’s first global city. By 1900 it was the imperial capital of a third of the globe, the first megacity. Since then, megacities have been springing up across the world, from São Paulo to Shanghai.
兩百年前，倫敦成爲首個在規模和人口上超越羅馬的城市，首個居民人數超過一百萬的現代城市以及全球首個國際化城市。到了1900年，倫敦已是佔全球三分之一版圖的帝國的首都，同時是全球首個超級大都市。自此之後，超級大都市在世界各地不斷湧現，諸如巴西聖保羅、中國上海等。
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