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 ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In our first post in this series, we examined the widely-held belief that China’s steel demand will continue to ...

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 ...

The Association of Housing Corporations of Nigeria has warned that rapid urbanisation is worsening housing pressure in major cities, leading to rising costs, infrastructure strain, and increasing ...

Thrust on industrialisation of coastal districts is set to result in a spurt in urbanisation over the medium to long term. By virtue of their location in the East Coast Economic Corridor (the region ...

Young professionals are flocking to urban areas for the exciting career opportunities, study options, and a vibrant city lifestyle with plenty of leisure activities, says Bradd Bendall, National Head ...

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 ...

Encouraging people out of their cars is one way to decouple urbanisation from intensive energy use A study of 274 cities has helped shed light on energy consumption in urban areas and what can be done ...

Urbanisation is reshaping our world and future, and nowhere is this transformation more profound than in Asia. Today, more than 2.2 billion people -- 54% of the global urban population -- live in ...

The urbanisation of Houston made Hurricane Harvey dump even more water on the city – because the tall buildings pushed air upwards and caused more rain to fall. Overall, urbanisation increased the ...