At the city level, local governments play perhaps the most important role in ensuring that urbanisation is inclusive and that its benefits are shared. Yet, a very large proportion of the population of many cities in Africa lacks access to adequate water and sanitation services. This increases ...
Every week, 1.5 million people move to towns and cities, putting huge demands on local resources and environments. Yet with the right techniques and technologies, urbanisation and sustainability can go hand-in-hand. The megacities of the future ...
The invisible killer lurking in the air of our cities 30 四月 2024 垃圾 Plastic treaty talks must protect countries like mine from pollution Plastic treaty talks must protect countries like mine from pollution 15 四月 2024 政策和金融 The World Bank and IMF must put a value on clean air ...
We develop a framework that integrates natural advantage, agglomeration economies, and firm selection to explain why large cities are both more productive and more unequal than small towns. Our model highlights interesting complementarities among those factors and it matches a number of key stylised fac...
Urbanisation and future mobility 来自 discovery.ucl.ac.uk 喜欢 0 阅读量: 33 作者: R Hickman 摘要: For the first time in human history, more than half of the world's population lives in cities, a remarkable rise in urbanization, relative to just 33 per cent in 1960 and 39 per cent in...
If well-managed, cities offer both adaptation an... ADM Thuo 被引量: 0发表: 2020年 Rethinking sustainable development within the framework of poverty and urbanisation in developing countries Since its emergence in the 1980s, the ideology underpinning sustainable development has become a metaphor for...
Social innovation and mega cities: what are the opportunities for business? Mega cities develop as core city centres merge with suburbs to form mega-regions, mega-corridors and even mega-slums. Cities of the future will have multiple downtowns and transit-oriented development, but will also witn...
While the spelling differs, the term carries the same meaning: the growth of urban areas at the expense of rural lands, characterized by a rising population in cities and towns and a transformation in economic, social, and environmental aspects. 13 Both terms describe a global trend affecting ...
Future cities and environmental sustainability Mass urbanisation can lead to social instability, undermining the capacity of cities to be environmentally sustainable and economically successful. A new model... S Riffat,R Powell,D Aydin - 《Future Cities & Environment》 被引量: 16发表: 2016年 Towards...
This working paper examines the evolution of Chinese cities and the challenges they are currently facing. It aims to identify possible patterns of urbanisation in the next forty years. The first part analyses the transformation of Chinese cities as a consequence of the economic policies implemented ...