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The global geography of world cities
… What are termed ‘world’ cities or ‘global’ cities command and control the world economy, and are … … Urban … The transition to a predominantly urban world … The global geography of world cities …
Blog, 09 July 2020
Environment & Urbanization Better Cities Day
… by HSG and published by SAGE , Environment & Urbanization (E&U)  is a world-leading biannual environmental and urban studies journal that … what grassroot mobilisation, housing policy and practice, and global alliances can bring to the issue of housing justice Urban forced … Settlements research group Romola Sanyal is associate professor of geography at London School of Economics  Dyfed Aubrey is inter-regional …
Event, 16 March 2023
What drives the world’s changing urban geographies?
… the one that follows will consider the influences on particular cities’ development trajectories. How urban concentrations evolve  … are created, and demand is concentrated. What we see on maps of the world’s large cities is where capital has been invested and where large … cities data visual (Image: IIED/Kiln) Urban population statistics and global maps of large cities also tell us nothing about the very large …
Blog, 23 April 2020
Q&A: Two years on, blog series maintains its focus – in changing and challenging times
… IIED launched the blog series ‘The transition to a predominantly urban world’ in January 2020 to examine different aspects of local and global urban change and what drives or shapes them – as well as local … and, coming later in 2022 – do London’s parks have lessons for other cities? Q: Can you give an overview of how this blog series has …
Article, 09 May 2022
Cities’ development trajectories
… or shapes urban change within nations. This blog looks at what drives cities’ development trajectories, especially successful large cities.  … change shaping cities’ trajectories We can assume that most of the world’s 100 largest cities discussed in the first three blogs in this … half of non-agricultural (i.e. predominantly urban) employment in the global South is in the informal economy. Large cities also have large …
Blog, 16 June 2020
Transitioning to a better global ‘new normal’
… change. One of us represents millions of slum dwellers in hundreds of cities across the global South; the other, researchers and university academics in the world’s least developed countries. While the impacts of the coronavirus …
Blog, 22 April 2020
Community-led housing: a pathway for more caring and just urban futures
Event, 30 March 2021
‘Act on nature’, demand hundreds of organisations, in unprecedented call to world leaders
… hundreds of millions of individuals globally, alongside more than 560 global businesses with combined revenue of $4 trillion, have today (18 … and the planet. “September's UN Summit on Biodiversity provides the world with an unmissable opportunity to change course. World leaders … biodiversity framework brings together subnational governments, cities, local authorities and their networks representing over a …
News, 18 September 2020
Internal and international influences on urban change
… (and trading relations) with neighbouring nations and the wider global economy. This includes investment decisions made by national and … foreign affiliates that control such a significant share of the world’s economy. They are responsible for almost a third of global … and attract new investment. These in turn influence the scale and geography of new investment and the locations where enterprises open up, …
Blog, 27 May 2020
Integrating gender and intersectionality in social protection programmes
… food insecurity, conflict and pandemics − as shown powerfully the world over by COVID-19 − increase vulnerabilities; these risks compound … a decline in this share: migrants, both women and men, left India’s cities in droves and returned to the villages. Here, men dominated the … programmes COVID-19 continues to both highlight and exacerbate global inequality. Recovery plans need robust mechanisms that strengthen …
Blog, 07 September 2021