This synthesis paper, Building Sustainability in an Urbanizing World, is a product of the partnership’s early discussions. In this paper, members of the partnership have collaborated to identify and ...
October 2016, No. 3 Vol. LIII, Human Habits, Human Habitats Africa is considered a rapidly urbanizing continent, but it lags behind when it comes to the discourse of urbanization. According to ...
Earth is urbanizing. Today, more than half of humanity lives in cities. Yet this trend is old and manifold. Cities emerged millenia ago and reflect both a unity and a diversity of inhabitants ...
Cities across the Asia Pacific are rapidly urbanizing, and face growing pressures to becoming more sustainable. In fact, more than 50 percent of the world's population now lives in urban areas.
Nonetheless, it will be many decades before a majority of the developing world's poor live in urban areas. The poor are urbanizing faster than the population as a whole. This reflects a ...