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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many developing countries are highly urbanised but lack large industrial sectors. Reuters/Akintunde Akinleye The patterns of urbanisation in the developing world in the past few decades have diverged ...

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 ...

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 ...

China’s decades-long urbanisation push may have reached a bottleneck, after the movement of rural residents to large cities rose by less than 1 percentage point last year for the first time in 25 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Approximately 4.86% of India’s land area is covered by wetlands – ecosystems that are often referred to as the “Earth’s kidneys” because they are crucial for maintaining an ecological balance. However ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's urbanisation rate has tripled over five decades from 28.4% in 1970 to 75.1% in 2020, says the Statistics Department of Malaysia (DOSM). Sharing further details, chief ...