Gordon McGranahan

Gordon McGranahan is a former principal researcher in IIED's Human Settlements research group; team leader, urbanisation. He left IIED in 2016.

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Insights

Houses next to a canal.

Burgeoning growth of deltaic cities puts lives and livelihoods at risk

Insight, 09 October 2023

A street in Freetown, Sierra Leone: involving growing low-income urban populations in urbanising countries will help result in more inclusive urbanisation (Photo: bobthemagicdragon, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

In the world's poorest countries, cities could be the Sustainable Development Goals test

Insight, 07 June 2016

The Bairro Proletário do Dique in Rio de Janeiro was settled in the 1960s. The local infrastructure remains poor (Photo: Mariana Gil/EMBARQ Brasil, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Is more inclusive urbanisation essential to the 2030 Agenda?

Insight, 02 March 2016

Brazil's favelas are a legacy of a more passive resistance reflecting an unwillingness to plan for anticipated population growth (Photo: Chris Jones, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Exploring inclusive urbanisation and other migration crises

Insight, 28 October 2015

The lives of Vasanthi and Gopal have been transformed by the low-cost toilet provided as part of the Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project (Photo: Asian Development Bank, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Why sanitation, spearhead of urban improvement in the 19th century, has become the laggard of the 21st

Insight, 04 March 2015

Our new interactive visualisation plots countries’ incomes per capita against their levels of urbanisation

Let's see what the BRICS teach us about urbanisation and economic growth

Insight, 16 September 2014

Publications

Preview of 11043IIED

Improving Access to Water and Sanitation: Rethinking the way forward in light of the Millennium Development Goals

01 January 2003

Preview of 11032IIED

Striving for Good Governance in Urban Areas: The Role of Local Agenda 21s

01 September 2002

Preview of 9160IIED

Demand-Side Water Strategies and the Urban Poor

01 January 2002

Preview of G00475

Human Settlements Group: Staff articles, working papers, books and reports. 2002

01 January 2002

Preview of G00516

Public Private Partnerships and the Poor Experiences with water provision in four low-income barrios in Buenos Aires

01 January 2002

Preview of G00518

Public Private Partnerships and the Poor Small enterprises and water provision in Kibera, Nairobi

01 January 2002

Preview of G00474

Human Settlements Group: Staff articles, working papers, books and reports. 2001

01 January 2001

Preview of 9056IIED

Urban Environmental Improvement and Poverty Reduction

01 January 2001

Citizens at Risk: From urban sanitation to sustainable cities, The

01 January 2001

Preview of G00473

Human Settlements Group: Staff articles, working papers, books and reports. 2000

01 January 2000