Dr. McCartney emphasised that urbanisation should be seen as a driver of economic growth and urged Pakistani policymakers to ...

Keri: The death of a black panther in a road accident at Kone-Priol on Sunday highlights the issue of rapid urbanisation that ...

Fadnavis said the Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Ltd (PMPML) was "running very well" in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad, and ...

Vijayawada: Amidst the increasing need for more trees due to the diminishing tree cover caused by rapid urbanisation and the ...

Urbanisation is the movement of populations from rural areas to towns and cities. It tends to happen when a country's economy changes and new industries develop. In recent years, several countries ...

Just a little bit of rain and there are floods on the roads. NARRATOR: Dua and Amalia are keen to find out when the urbanisation began. DUA: What changed in the village that all these developments ...

Rapid urbanisation in Africa is leading to a noticeable shift in the disaster risk profiles of the cities and countries on that continent. One of the main challenges in assuring resilient cities is ...

Dr Mathew McCartney from the African School of Economics (Zanzibar) spoke about the absence of urbanisation in Pakistan’s macroeconomic planning. “Urbanisation, when managed well, connects ...

Rwanda has officially launched the dissemination of its revised 2025 National Urbanisation Policy (NUP), alongside the KUBAKA (BPMIS 2.0) portal, the new and enhanced platform for online building ...

A more positive view of urbanisation sees the economic opportunity. Kenya has 11 towns and five cities with populations exceeding 155,000 inhabitants each. Population trends are hot-button ...

Between 2000 and 2020, the region recorded an urban population growth rate of around 2.3% per year - one of the highest ...