urbanization

John Evelyn’s report for King Charles II of England becomes one of the first tracts on urban air pollution.

UN releases “Declaration on Cities and Other Human Settlements in the New Millennium.”

The Habitat II UN Conference on Human Settlements takes place in Istanbul in 1996.

Within four days, two-thirds of the city is destroyed and nearly one-hundred thousand people are homeless. Only nine deaths are recorded, but the real toll is likely much higher.