India hosts the 13th BRICS Urbanisation Forum in New Delhi on June 11-12. Ministers and experts will discuss building ...

More than 80 per cent of people worldwide now live in towns and cities, according to a major United Nations report, and this figure is set to rise further, underscoring the need to ensure urban areas ...

Urbanisation is a key global challenge. During the 1950s, two-thirds of the world population lived in rural areas and only one-third in urban areas. Now, approximately five per cent of the world’s ...

Urbanisation can accelerate progress towards the millennium development goals (MDGs), but careful planning is essential to prevent the growth of slums, pollution and crime that can derail achievements ...

Pakistan has experienced one of the highest rates of urbanisation in South Asia, with around 37.7% of its population residing in urban areas. This statistic is poised to grow even further as the ...

Speaking at the World Urban Forum in Baku, Azerbaijan, they said extreme weather events and rapid urbanisation are outpacing ...

Rapid urbanisation is a phrase used by many to describe the urban transformations taking place across India. However, this is far from the truth. While India has experienced rapid urban growth, its ...

Increasing urban populations put a strain on resources and leave many on the fringes of society. What can NGOs do to give them a voice? More people now live in cities than in rural areas around the ...

Lewis Dijkstra takes the LSE stage again to share his insights on population growth and stresses the role of natural change as the dominant source of urban growth when using a harmonised definition of ...

Uganda’s urbanisation rate has been rated as the highest in Africa at 5.2 percent per annum. Uganda has demonstrated a remarkable resilience and growth in recent years driven by a combination of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Joan Clos, one-time doctor and former mayor of Barcelona, is hoping to encourage politicians to see cities not ...

Different urbanisation policies have varying impacts on a region's ecosystem services, researchers report. Dense housing leads to an increase in concrete and asphalt, reducing areas' flood mitigation ...