Items tagged:
Urbanisation
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New coalition to transform cities – and lives
The new Transformative Urban Coalitions project brings IIED and partners together to change structures and values, build new urban coalitions and implement strategies leading to socially inclusive zero-carbon cities
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What drives the world’s changing urban geographies?
David Satterthwaite discusses how evolving economies and new technologies have changed the shape of urban centres
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Cartel or chemist?
Could tapping into the informal services in Nairobi’s Mukuru slum be the answer to better health, schools and water provision?
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Invisiblising cities: the obsession with national statistics and international comparisons
David Satterthwaite discusses the vast gaps in city data, and explains why planning, governing and servicing cities calls for data that is broken down into city and sub-city level
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Which cities went up or down the ranking of the world’s largest cities?
IIED senior fellow David Satterthwaite is curating a series of blogs and interviews on global urban change. In this blog he looks at rapidly growing cities that moved into the list of the top 100 cities, and those that fell off the bottom of the list
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IIED and partner events at the World Urban Forum (WUF10)
This page summarises the activities of IIED, its researchers and partners during the 10th session of the World Urban Forum (WUF10) in Abu Dhabi, UAE, from 8-13 February 2020
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IIED podcast explores opportunities for urban change
Ahead of the 2020 World Urban Forum, the third episode of IIED's ‘Make Change Happen’ podcast looks at how our local-to-global urban work developed and its current priorities
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Seizing opportunities for urban change: Make Change Happen podcast episode 3
A quarter of the world’s urban population live in informal settlements, mostly in the global South. Launched before the 2020 World Urban Forum, this episode looks at how IIED’s work with marginalised urban communities developed, and what opportunities exist now for building more inclusive cities
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Continuity and change in the world’s 20 largest cities
David Satterthwaite looks at changes in the rankings for the world's largest cities, revealing which cities have surged up the top 20, and which have fallen
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The world's 100 largest cities from 1800 to 2020, and beyond
In the first of a new blog series, IIED senior fellow David Satterthwaite looks at the world’s 100 largest cities, and how their changing distribution reflects social, political and economic shifts across the globe
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Q&A: blog series explores the transition to a predominantly urban world
IIED has launched a series of blogs that will examine different aspects of global urban change, including analysis of the social, political and environmental factors that cause cities to thrive or decline. David Satterthwaite highlights what to expect
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The transition to a predominantly urban world
This is a series of blogs and interviews, curated by IIED senior fellow David Satterthwaite, that will examine different aspects of global urban change, including analysis of the social, political and environmental factors that cause cities to thrive or decline.
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African cities can raise more money. Kenya and South Africa offer useful lessons
Africa's cities are expanding at an unprecedented rate. Sarah Colenbrander and Ian Palmer highlight research that shows how Africa's national governments can support cities and unlock vital investment.
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Reframing food security for an urbanising world
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal of zero hunger by 2030 means taking account of changes in both rural and urban contexts. Cecilia Tacoli reports back from a workshop organised with IFAD on some of the issues raised
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Fighting for the future – sustainable development and the battle for ideas in 2017
Following the landmark global agreements on sustainable development sealed in 2015, including the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on climate change, the end of 2016 prompted the question: can the world sustain this hard-fought momentum?
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Show me the money!
Ahead of a side event at Habitat III, Anna Walnycki highlights how funding is needed for grassroots upgrading of informal settlements in the face of evictions
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Action from UN's Habitat III key to lift urban millions out of poverty
Nearly 200 million people are living in cities around the world with no access to electricity – most are in sub-Saharan Africa. The lack of something so basic and necessary is keeping them in poverty and hindering cities’ potential to be the economic powerhouses they can be
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Will Africa have the world's largest cities in 2100?
A new report suggests that most of the world's largest cities in 2100 will be in Africa – including many with over 40 million inhabitants. This blog suggests growth in numbers will hinge more on the extent of economic development
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The shifting power of cities
Population predictions for the world's largest cities in the 21st century (part 2): New figures show the population of the world's largest cities set to soar. This rapid growth calls for better, more sustainable cities
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Cities on the twenty-ninth day
Population predictions for the world's largest cities in the 21st century (part 1): rapid urbanisation, if managed sustainably, could ease the pressure of exponential growth set for urban areas
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In the world's poorest countries, cities could be the Sustainable Development Goals test
Ahead of next week's dialogue event on the challenges and opportunities posed to Least Developed Countries by the Sustainable Development Goals, Gordon McGranahan examines how cities and urbanisation can contribute to attaining development goals.
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Recognising urban rights: global debates and local struggles
Global debates can help frame how human rights in the city are recognised but are often far removed from processes that affirm rights at local level
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Is more inclusive urbanisation essential to the 2030 Agenda?
Efforts to better accommodate rural migrants moving to cities could play an important part in resolving conflicts in the 2030 Agenda and ensuring no-one is left behind
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Exploring inclusive urbanisation and other migration crises
In the run-up to World Cities Day, with its theme of 'living together', an IIED, IDS and UNFPA workshop will examine why the migration that helps to create cities is so often resisted, and how a more inclusive urbanisation can be achieved. Gordon McGranahan raises six key questions
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Focus on urbanisation issues in Karachi
IIED collaborated with partners to look at urbanisation in Karachi
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Urbanisation and the environment
Growing urban affluence tends to have profound environmental consequences, but the net impact depends heavily on how the transition is managed. IIED worked to identify the best means of making urbanisation more environmentally beneficial and less destructive
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Rush to urbanise leaves food vendors out in the rain
The drive to organise and improve towns and cities in Uganda is leaving food vendors out in the rain, warns Chris Busiinge from the Kabarole Research and Resource Centre
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Learning about urbanisation from the BRICS
It is critically important to draw the right lessons from the BRICS, and both the successes and failures of their urbanisation strategies have much to teach the rest of the urbanising world. IIED worked to draw out some of these lessons
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Urbanisation and emerging population issues
Urbanisation is a defining trend of our time. IIED worked with partners around the world to promote the benefits of urbanisation while avoiding its destructive tendencies
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Stopping rural people going to cities only makes poverty less visible, and stripping migrants of rights makes it worse
There is growing concern that rural migrants transfer poverty to urban areas, but excluding them is not the solution. Ensuring full citizenship rights to all groups and proactive planning for urban growth are more effective ways to reduce disadvantage and poverty
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The IPCC and an urbanising planet
The IPCC's Fifth Assessment gets the importance of understanding and acting on urbanisation
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Let's see what the BRICS teach us about urbanisation and economic growth
Our new interactive visualisation demonstrates the dynamics of urbanisation and economic growth in different countries. The visualisation shows that countries have very different dynamics from each other, which has implications for their economic, social and even environmental prospects.
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Reading national signatures in urbanisation-income space
This interactive data visual examines the relationship between economic growth and urbanisation, with an introductory video focusing on the BRICS – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa
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Visualising urbanisation
We are living in what many call 'the urban century' and the many layers of complexity around the world's growth in urban areas have led IIED to develop new ways of looking at urbanisation
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Introduction to urbanisation and rural-urban linkages
Understanding urbanisation and the links between rural and urban areas is fundamental to making the most of the global transformations happening around the world, and to challenging the many myths that exist
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Rural urban linkages
Rather than looking separately at urban and rural areas and what matters to each of them, it is vital to look at the linkages between them: it is from here that lasting change will come
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Cities: an interactive data visual
This interactive data visual – now updated to cover all cities with 500,000-plus inhabitants – illustrates the scale and speed of urban transformation that research by IIED has sought to document and describe
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BRICS urbanisation provides lessons for economic growth and social equity
Towns and cities across Africa, Asia and Latin America have a wealth of lessons to learn from the BRICS nations – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – according to research published today.
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Urban poverty’s hidden dimensions threaten development, new research reveals
The study, which was conducted by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) with support from UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, shows that although urbanization pr
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Making gender and generation matter
The gender and generation team aimed to bring together the work of IIED and its partners to analyse and integrate gender and generation issues in all its activities, and to engage and contribute to the emerging debates
