The world in becoming increasingly urbanised. The UN forecasts that by 2050, some 68% of the global population will live in ...

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 ...

Like the rest of South Asia, Pakistan is also struggling to cope with rapid urbanisation. That an increasing number of Pakistanis will invariably be residing in urban areas over the coming decades ...

The urban population of Sri Lanka has reached, over the past few decades, a staggering 48% of the total population of the country in real terms, in contrast to the official statistics which place the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cemeteries across South Africa are nearing full capacity, warns the South African Funeral Practitioners Association.

Members of a quiet coastal community in the country’s northeast say they have been “waiting indefinitely” to be pushed out.

Malawi has embarked on intensi f ying efforts to manage rapid urbanisation through a comprehensive national urban policy and local initiatives aimed at sustainable development and disaster resilience.