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 ...

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 ...

Report highlights shrinking forests, vanishing ponds, altered drainage and weak coordination among agencies as experts ...

Bhubaneswar: Urbanisation alone has led to 60% increase in warming of Indian cities, with eastern tier-II cities leading the way. In Bhubaneswar, urbanisation contributed 85% to the warming whereas it ...

While some pioneering and far-sighted programmes have been launched to improve urban areas, the pace of urbanisation is so rapid that merely fixing existing towns may not work. One of the most complex ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cities have been assigned the tag of the engine of growth due to their multifaceted role in the development of human society. Analysis of historical data also points to the same conclusion. The World ...

BHUBANESWAR: Odisha may have emerged as one of India’s rapidly developing states but urbanisation and its pace in the state remained among the lowest and slowest in the country in the last one decade, ...

Homebuyers are increasingly factoring in energy efficiency, air quality, and access to open green spaces while evaluating housing options, driven by health awareness and long-term cost considerations.