Gordon McGranahan

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

Gordon McGranahan's blog posts

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

Blog, Jun 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?

Blog, Mar 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

Blog, Oct 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

Blog, Mar 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

Blog, Sep 2014