Passage 1African cities are forecast to urbanize(城市化) at a rate of 3.65% annually, adding nearly 350million new city-dwellers by 2030, according to The Brookings Institution. A billion more people are expected to be living in African cities by 2063.Population growth is the engine of ...
Passage 1African cities are forecast to urbanize(城市化) at a rate of 3. 65% annually, adding nearly 350million new city-dwellers by 2030, according to The Brookings Institution. A billion more people are expected to be living in African cities by 2063.Population growth is the engine of ...
By investing in green mobility, Onyango said, African cities could reap multiple benefits, including better health outcomes for the population, climate resilience and economic vitality. Nneka Henry, head of the United Nations Road Safety Fund, said that besides revitalizing Africa's green growth, no...
Population of African Cities to TripleAfrican city populations will more than triple over the next 40 years, warns UN-HABITAT's new report,The State of African Cities 2010: Governance, Inequalities and Urban Land Markets
The conference comes as Africa grapples with an acute housing shortage sparked by urbanization and population growth, leaving governments to struggle to meet the increasing demand for affordable housing. According to Habitat for Humanity, many of the 40,000 people moving to African cities every day...
Between now and 2050, the urban population of Africa could triple. Yet cities in sub-Saharan Afica are not getting richer the way cities in the rest of the world have. Most urban Africans live in slums(贫民窟); migrants are often not much better off than they were in the countryside. ...
Creating a toxic storm of death and illness, the pandemic is devastating black communities across the United States and revealing the deadly legacy of inequality.
Though African countries are poor, not all African cities are. ②In Lagos, foreign oil workers can pay as much as $65,000 per year in rent for a modest apartment in a safe part of town. ③If that income were better taxed, it might provide the revenue for better infrastructure. ④If ...
The pandemic has already taken a backseat in the United States to soaring inflation and the Ukraine crisis, as states and cities have lifted anti-pandemic restrictions. But Powers continues to see it as an issue "in the forefront" for him and "a tough situation," because "there are still...
Africa's population set to urbanize by 2050, urbanization will be both an opportunity as well as a key challenge that many governments would have to face," Balakrishnan said, adding that the theme of this year's Exchange Visit, Singapore and Africa: Partners for Smart Cities, was "so apt....