Economic Survey flags behaviour, not culture, as key to urban order, showing how rule-based metro systems shape civic ...

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 ...

India’s urban population has expanded rapidly, with regions such as Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru now ranking among world’s ...

Between 2000 and 2020, the region recorded an urban population growth rate of around 2.3% per year - one of the highest globally. By 2050, more than half of the Pacific's population will live in urban ...

Dietrich Vollrath has nothing to disclose. Doug Gollin receives funding from the International Growth Centre and its Ethiopia Country Programme. In the past five years he has received funding from the ...

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 ...

In the last few weeks, Dhaka has hosted a number of international workshops and meetings on issues to do with migration and also on urbanisation. One of the outcomes of these series of meetings is ...

Gujarat, one of the fastest urbanising states in India, seems to be doing so against the wishes of its people As you move west from the crowded old neighbourhoods of inner-city Ahmedabad, the roads ...

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 ...

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 ...