A Tale of Two Megalopolises. What new cities in Saudi Arabia and Egypt tell us about their autocrats. April 20, 2024, 6:00 AM View Comments () By Jan ...

Thanks to Urbanization, Tomorrow’s Megalopolises Will Be in Africa and Asia. Tokyo will still be the world’s largest city in 2030, but it will have many more contenders on its heels.

Megalopolises led by quasi first-tier regional core cities include the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle, the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, coastal areas of Guangdong, Fujian, and Zhejiang ...

The three megalopolises are home to more than half of the companies listed on the main boards in Shanghai, Shenzhen and Hong Kong, with the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Megalopolis accounting for 15.9%, ...

The densities of these megalopolises are substantially higher than France and Germany. Over the next 50 years, most of the 100 million or so new Americans expected to be here will probably choose ...

The megalopolises near the top on the rankings mostly have large GDP and favorable natural conditions. Top 100 cities on major environmental rankings of China Integrated City Index 2022. 2.

Editor's note: Why do we say affluent Chinese cities are as rich as some countries? Why do we consider megalopolises as the main form to promote urbanization? In the major economic rankings of ...

Stuart Franklin/Magnum PhotosShanghai’s glittering facade has yet to lure foreign investors away from Hong Kong. Urbanization on an extraordinary scale is happening in Asia, whose megalopolises are ...

Only a few years ago, the city ranked among other burgeoning megalopolises — what The Washington Post in a 2021 report called Africa’s rising cities, set to dominate the world’s urban future.