Nearly 3 billion additional urban dwellers are forecasted by 2050,an unprecedented wave of urban growth.While cities struggle to provide water to these new residents,they will also face equally unpre

The focus of this paper is on the dynamics of population, development and the environment in urban areas of low-income developing countries. In addition to drawing on the broader literature, this pap

This paper provides an overview on what has been learned about urban poverty over the past decade with a focus on what is new and what the implications are for the World Bank going forward in an incr

Cities have always created wealth, and have always been a population sink. Still, a world now more than half urban and headed toward 80 percent urban by mid-century is something new in history.

In the first part of the paper urban sustainability issues in African countries are considered with a focus on urban growth. The need for urban management tools that are able to provide prospective s

The urban world is shifting. Today only 600 urban centers generate about 60 percent of global GDP. While 600 cities will continue to account for the same share of global GDP in 2025, this group of 60

This paper discusses the influences on food and farming of an increasingly urbanized world and a declining ratio of food producers to food consumers.Urbanization has been underpinned by the rapid gro

In an increasingly urban world, almost half the world's total population and over three-quarters of the population of high-income countries now live in urban areas. While urbanization levels and tren

This essay focuses on the conceptual, empirical, and policy-relevant linkages among urbanization, rural–urban migration, and economic development.First,recent trends and future scenarios for urban po