By: Samaa Web Desk
Date: August 29th 2016
Source: Samaa
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s increasing urban population and insufficient knowledge of the cities’ dynamics is resulting in lack of timely service delivery, resource allocation, and urban solutions by cities’ authorities.
The World Bank estimates that by 2025 Indonesia will have 68 percent of its population living in cities or urban communities. As such, Indonesia’s cities are among the fastest growing cities in the world. However, without a unified spatial data system, urban planning is a daunting task while
By: Rina Chandran
Date: 9 January 2017
Source: Reuters
A commercial painter by trade, K. Raja dreamed of setting up his own business in Surya Nagar slum, in the southern Indian city of Chennai, where he had lived all his life.
But his dream faded last February, when he and about 1,000 other
By: Ming Lu
Date: February 18th 2016
Source: Nikkei Asian Review
Chinese leaders have announced plans to reform the country's household registration, or hukou, system to transform domestic migrant workers into local citizens of the cities where they work and live. Such a policy change would mark
By: Tadit Kundu
Date: March 9th 2016
Source: Live Mint
With close to 25 million people living in Mumbai and Delhi combined, India’s urbanization has clearly been lop-sided
By: Ellen Wulfhorst
Date: June 10th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Dangerously weak planning is leading to unchecked urban sprawl, leaving new city dwellers far from transportation and services, United Nations experts said.
By: Greg Scruggs
Date: September 20th 2016
Source: Citiscope
The Habitat III strategy ‘doesn’t go far enough on financing’, one observer noted at an event on the eve of the U.N. General Assembly.
By: ENS Economic Bureau
Date: October 15th 2016
Source: The Indian Express
India’s urban system consists of 7,933 cities and towns as of 2011 with a population of 377.16 million. It is now the second largest in the world rising from 5,161 towns and cities in 2001 with a total population of 286.1
In April 2014 UN-Habitat launched the Global Urban Lectures – lecture packages focused on subjects related to cities and urbanization.
By: David Lawal
Date: February 24th 2016
Source: The Nation
The city of Abuja, under the auspices of the Government of Nigeria, is about to host a strategic event vital to the future of Africa and its citizens.
The Habitat III Africa Regional Meeting of 24-26 February is a crucial spur to the