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Urbanisation
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Urbanisation-related materials.
Should The World Plan For Fewer (Not More) People?
Current UN projections show that there will be 11 billion people living on Earth by the end of…
How To Build A Fairer City
Four leading academics propose the ‘grounded city’ – where sustainable transport, accessible broadband and modest housing take precedence…
Singapore’s ‘Urban Jungle’
Inside a city that works hard at keeping the jungle in “urban jungle.” When it comes to discovering…
China’s Pearl River Delta Overtakes Tokyo As World’s Largest Megacity
Several hundred million more people are expected to move to cities in East Asia over the next 20…
London, Shanghai, And Cities, Wayback Then.
From London to Shanghai, clips of cities from the early days of film can be a valuable tool…
The Global Cities That Power the World Economy Now
The latest numbers from the Brookings Institution are a reminder that inequality has a geographic dimension. It’s often…
How Brooklyn Is Like Buenos Aires: Toward A Science Of Cities
Marc Barthelemy and Rémi Louf, researchers at L’Institut de Physique Théorique outside of Paris, are seeking quantitative approaches to understanding cities.…
Quality Of Life Improves In Compact Cities
That urban design improves the quality of people’s lives is an old idea. A new study, Measuring Sprawl…
What The Collapse Of Ancient Capitals Can Teach Us About The Cities Of Today
Warnings from history: Angkor was a thriving metropolis of 750,000 before a series of mega-monsoons made it unliveable.…
Cities [In Britain] Where Planning Went Right
Britain’s planning departments have lost nearly half of their budgets over the past four years, and more spending…
PAPER CITY – An Urban Story
UN-Habitat has launched “Paper City”, a stop-motion video animation portraying today’s urban challenges using a paper and cardboard…
Urbanisation in a St. Petersburg Suburb
Photographer Alexey Bogolepov lives in Parnas, a suburb in the north of St Petersburg. With the rapid expansion…
Making City Planning Cool
British cities are in crisis, but it is of an unusual and distinctly 21st-century form. Thirty years ago,…
China’s Obsession With Vertical Cities
By the end of next year one-in-three of the world’s 100m+ skyscrapers will be in China, as its…
Africa and Asia and the Urban Population Boom
The UN predicts that two-thirds of the world will live in cities by 2050, with 90% of growth…
City Animals Evolving With Bigger Brains
Evolutionary biologists have come to recognise humans as a tremendous evolutionary force. In hospitals, we drive the evolution…
When It Comes to City Happiness, People Are Key
The notion that condensed living spaces always heighten misery is flawed; interaction keeps us sharp and more content.…
Our Urban Past, Present and Future
We are bombarded with statistics about the future of cities these days, as fast as the cities themselves…
The Age Of The City-States
The largest 300 cities are home to a fifth of the world’s people but account for nearly half…
Homes In Unexpected Places
Iwan Baan is a renowed Dutch architectural photographer. In his TED talk, he shows us how people and communities…
Urbanisation Can Be ‘Force For Good’ With Better Jobs and Cheaper Services
World Bank economist says governments shouldn’t fear rise of cities, but warns ‘slum growth could overwhelm city growth’.…
What Makes a City a City?
In the dizzying world of tech cities, garden cities and smart cities, perhaps it’s time to redefine what…
Is Urbanisation Sustainable?
“Rapid urbanization is the fastest, most intense social phenomenon that ever happened to humankind, perhaps to biology on…
The Challenges of Urbanisation May Be Even Greater In Small Towns
Global urbanisation has prompted a focus on megacities that overlooks the needs and vulnerabilities of smaller settlements. The…