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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Geographical weighted regression (GWR) can be used to explore the COVID-19 transmission pattern between cases. This study aimed to explore the influence from environmental and urbanisation factors, ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the most complex challenges India faces today is the pace and pattern of urbanisation. For the first time since 1947, we added more people to our cities than to rural areas in the decade ending ...

Urbanisation has never resonated stronger among countries – developed and developing alike – than now. While the recently documented New Urban Agenda (Habitat III) posits that this century will ...

Some rat, possum and mozzie species thrive when living close to people. Mark Philpott/Flickr, CC BY-NC Our world is becoming increasingly urbanised. In 1950, just 30% of the world’s population lived ...