Geography KS3 / GCSE. This short film for secondary schools explores urbanisation: how rapid urbanisation impacts both urban ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The relationship between urbanisation and development is one of the mysteries of our time. History reveals a strong correlation between a country’s level of urbanisation and the average incomes of ...

Globally, more people live in urban areas than in rural ones. Africa and Asia are urbanising faster than any other regions in the world. By 2050, 66% of the world’s population is projected to be urban ...

Urbanisation can accelerate progress towards the millennium development goals (MDGs), but careful planning is essential to prevent the growth of slums, pollution and crime that can derail achievements ...

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 is both a driver and a result of economic development. Many economic and social activities thrive in these densely populated areas, with some inherently requiring the agglomeration of ...

The rate of growth in its urban infrastructure and homes will determine India’s overall GDP growth rate. Growth of these sectors will, in turn, determine the rate of employment creation, growth of the ...