Cities are the future. In the past two decades, a global urban revolution has taken place,
mainly in the South. The'mega-cities' of the developing world are home to over 10 million …

By 2030 more than sixty percent of the world's population will live in urban areas, with most
of the world's population growth over the next twenty-five years being absorbed by cities and …

How did neighborhood groceries, parish halls, factories, and even saloons contribute more
to urban vitality than did the fiscal might of postwar urban renewal? With a novelist's eye for …

With the urbanization of the world's population proceeding apace and the equally rapid
urbanization of poverty, urban theory has an urgent challenge to meet if it is to remain …

At the dawn of the third millennium, planet Earth entered a zone of turbulence. The 2008
crisis added economic uncertainty to the threat of global warming and extreme events such …

The urban century manifests itself at the peripheries. While the massive wave of present
urbanization is often referred to as an'urban revolution', most of this startling urban growth …

In recent years, attention has been drawn to the fact that now more than half of the world's
population is urbanised, and the bulk of these urban dwellers are living in the global South …

A world more urban... The world is undergoing massive urbanization, and is projected to
increase from three to over four billion city dwellers, mostly in the developing world, within …

We live in a world of cities, where more than half of the population lives and works in urban
settlements, whether dense or sprawled, metropolitan or networked, expanding or shrinking …

For the first time in human history more people now live and towns and cities than in rural
areas. In the wealthier countries of the world, the transition from predominantly rural to urban …