World Urbanization Prospects, published in 2009, indicate that urban populations will grow
by an estimated 2.3 billion over the next 40 years, and as much as 70% of the world's …

By 2020, 80% of the world's population is expected to be living in cities. Some estimates are
predicting that the cost of urban congestion will reach $37.7 billion by 2030. Under the …

In 2015, the central government of India added a new dimension to urbanisation and urban
development policy and introduced the concept of smart cities. In the beginning, the concept …

The purpose of this paper is to provide a broad overview of the recent patterns and trends of
urban growth in developing countries. Over the last 20 years many urban areas have …

Cities are home to half the world's seven billion people. Current urbanization trends indicate
that an additional three billion people will be living in cities by 2050, increasing the urban …

Urbanisation, technology, and the growth of smart cities Page 1 Singapore Management
University Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Asian Management …

The United Nations declared in 2007 that,'For the first time in history the urban population
will equal the rural population of the world'. Since then the march of urbanization has been …

Urbanisation is a major change taking place globally. It is estimated that 500 million people
will be urbanised by 2030 which is around 60% of the world's population will be living in …

What it means to become a smart city and to engage in smart governance continues to
evolve as our understanding of these concepts, in both theory and practice, evolves …

The core argument of this chapter is that the Smart Cities Mission appears to present a
disconnect between the actually existing city development and urbanization, and its primary …