A French street artist known as JR has been awarded the 2011 TED Prize. The $100,000 prize rewards an artist known for plastering huge black-and-white photos of ordinary people in some of the world’s worst slums.
China’s rapid urbanization is drawing hundreds of millions of people to its cities. And that’s having a profound impact on those in the villages left behind. The World’s Mary Kay Magistad has the third in our series on China’s urbanization.
