It is projected that by the year 2050, the urban population in the world will increase by 2.5 billion. The big question is not how many people can reside in an urban area, but how we can build sustainable and livable cities. 1 Reducing transport emissions is the first step towards sus...
Between 2015 and 2020, the urban population across Asia grew by 2.16 percent. Urbanization across the region was projected to continue, but at an increasingly lower pace. The urban population was projected to increase by 0.84 percent between 2045 and 2050. ...
By 2050, 68% of the world’s population will live in urban areas,predicts the United Nations. How cities of the future deal with that influx presents a lucrative opportunity for designers and developers, working with urban planners, architects and engineers, to create vibrant communities, says V...
As the global population continues to surge, cities become increasingly complex ecosystems, dense and bustling environments home to millions of people. Today, more than half of the world's population lives in cities, which is expected to grow dramatically in the coming decades. This rapid urbaniza...
The world's urban population has grown from 751 million in 1950 to 4.46 billion in 2021 and will grow to 6.68 billion by 2050. While architects and designers want to define and control the future of our cities, the immediate reality of New York City, now, is a lesson in what may be ...
Projections show that urbanization, the gradual shift in residence of the human population from rural to urban areas, combined with the overall growth of the world's population, could add another 2.5 billion people to urban areas by 2050, with close to 90 percent of this increase taking place...
Population growth is a sign of human achievement, since it means people are living longer and healthier lives, Guterres said, adding that it also has contributed to an increase in global production and consumption. "This is one more reason to adjust our production and consumption habits to avert...
Global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions, transportation, and the transformation of land use caused by population growth is a critical problem tha
根据第一段的“70% of the global population is likely to live in urban areas by 2050. Feeding residents requires complex supply chains that are easy to collapse. But a new generation of farmers hope to address this by bringing nature back into our cities.(到2050年,全球70%的人口可能生活在...
More specifically, food production to support Beijing’s population today releases food 81 Gg of P (multiplying the phosphorus footprint per capita in China13 and the population in Beijing62); but this would be reduced to 30 Gg of phosphorus released to produce food for the city in 2030 ...