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 ...

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 ...

WRI India also cites the United Nations-promoted degree of urbanisation methodology, under which about 61.6% of India’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Our future is destined to be urban as urbanisation in developing countries is a defining feature of the 21st century. It is the most significant demographic transformation in our century because it ...

Major cities, including metropolises like Dhaka and Chattogram, consistently rank among the world's least liveable urban areas. They grapple with a multitude of issues. Over 50 percent of the urban ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

• Two or more contiguous towns with or without their outgrowths, and • A city and one or more adjoining towns with their outgrowths together forming a contiguous spread. Examples of urban outgrowth ...