The number of countries that are considered highly urbanized has increased dramatically in recent decades and is expected to continue to grow in the coming decades. The world is entering the era of sustainable urbanization. By 2030, the world is predicted to have 41 mega cities. Megalopolis is the laboratory of a new urban way of life that spreads out into the civilized world. Today, it is a uniting of all activities related to the production of value added. They are the basis of what we call the globalization of the economy. Continued urbanization means that societies must continue to provide more food, more employment, more housing and more transport to the growing number of citizens. Megalopolis today is becoming a vulnerable place and i...
Managing urban growth has become one of the most important challenges of the 21st century (cf. Cohen...
By 2025, 60 to 80 percent of the world’s population will live in urban environments. Additionally, t...
Megacities have particular significance in the world-wide process of urbanisation: In the year 2015,...
Today more than half of the 7 billion people worldwide live in cities. By 2030, 5 billion people wil...
Two defining influences of the last hundred years have been population growth and rapid urbanization...
The new millennium has seen a fresh wave of world economic development especially in the Asian-Pacif...
Defined by UN-HABITAT, a megacity is an urban area with over 10 million inhabitants. To date (2014),...
Increased urbanization, global warming and sustainable growth belong to the major contemporary polic...
A staggering figure that 23 urban giants host around 10% of the world’s urban population by 2010 rai...
In the last two decades, the world has experienced phenomenal levels of urbanization. According to i...
The shift from rural to more urban societies is a global trend with significant consequences for gre...
Introduction Megacities are facing major contemporary challenges, including climate change, migratio...
Urbanization is one of the dominant demographic trends of our time. In 1900, 150 million people live...
Today, more than half of humankind lives in towns and cities. From below 30 % in 1950, the global pr...
Megacities : Urban form, governance, and sustainability / André Sorensen & Junichiro Okata. Springe...
Managing urban growth has become one of the most important challenges of the 21st century (cf. Cohen...
By 2025, 60 to 80 percent of the world’s population will live in urban environments. Additionally, t...
Megacities have particular significance in the world-wide process of urbanisation: In the year 2015,...
Today more than half of the 7 billion people worldwide live in cities. By 2030, 5 billion people wil...
Two defining influences of the last hundred years have been population growth and rapid urbanization...
The new millennium has seen a fresh wave of world economic development especially in the Asian-Pacif...
Defined by UN-HABITAT, a megacity is an urban area with over 10 million inhabitants. To date (2014),...
Increased urbanization, global warming and sustainable growth belong to the major contemporary polic...
A staggering figure that 23 urban giants host around 10% of the world’s urban population by 2010 rai...
In the last two decades, the world has experienced phenomenal levels of urbanization. According to i...
The shift from rural to more urban societies is a global trend with significant consequences for gre...
Introduction Megacities are facing major contemporary challenges, including climate change, migratio...
Urbanization is one of the dominant demographic trends of our time. In 1900, 150 million people live...
Today, more than half of humankind lives in towns and cities. From below 30 % in 1950, the global pr...
Megacities : Urban form, governance, and sustainability / André Sorensen & Junichiro Okata. Springe...
Managing urban growth has become one of the most important challenges of the 21st century (cf. Cohen...
By 2025, 60 to 80 percent of the world’s population will live in urban environments. Additionally, t...
Megacities have particular significance in the world-wide process of urbanisation: In the year 2015,...