Cities need clear limits and targets on urban sprawl to understand whether planning tools like greenbelts and denser ...

Urbanization is the defining global phenomenon of this century. For the first time in history, more than half the world’s population lives in urban areas. Between 2000 and 2030, in developing ...

The government in 2022 inaugurated a task force on Re-engineering and Transformation of Urban Development whose overall goal is to come up with ideas on how to make our cities and urban areas more ...

So it’s to be expected that, as the world becomes more urban, the United Nations’ 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) include a target devoted to “Sustainable Cities and Communities.” And with ...

More than half of the world’s population live in cities - urban areas that produce approximately 70% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. As the City Climate Finance Gap Fund’s first project to ...

This resource provides a brief introduction to writing in the field of Geography and Urban Planning through the lens of threshold concepts. Geography integrates the study of people, places, and ...

San Jose, the 10th-largest city in the country with more than 1 million residents, has long been described as America’s “most forgettable” major city. That caricature has persisted even though it sits ...

Bong County native and urban development specialist Kusee L. Armstrong has renewed calls for Liberia to adopt geospatial driven development strategies as a means of addressing youth unemployment, ...

Bangladesh is currently grappling with the severe consequences of unplanned urbanisation. Key metropolitan hubs—including Dhaka, Chattogram, Gazipur, Narayanganj, Mymensingh, and Cumilla—have expanded ...