Urbanisation News
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Three times more city dwellers face dangerous heat, humidityBy 2016, at least 1.7 billion were exposed to multiple days during which temperatures and humidity rose to levels at which even very healthy people found it debilitating to work outdoors, finds a new study of more than 13,000 cities. -
In Pakistan city, green scheme for polluting bus owners inches alongPeshawar hopes to lower its carbon emissions by paying bus owners to give up their exhaust-spewing vehicles—but sellers and climate experts say the scheme is too slow and too small.
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India’s rural migrants face climate hazards in the citiesClimate’s impact on agriculture forced millions in India to move to megacities. But migrants also face climate hazards in cities, particularly floods and heat waves. -
Is Cambodia’s thirst for sand putting communities and the Mekong at risk?The Cambodian government is embarking on a number of ambitious development projects, which critics say come at the expense of the environment and people’s livelihoods.
Urbanisation Opinion
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Are cities finished?– Far from rendering cities obsolete, the pandemic has unlocked an ever-broader potential for renaissance – what the economist Joseph Schumpeter famously called 'creative destruction' on an urban scale. -
Will the tropics eventually become uninhabitable?– Absolute temperatures are expected to rise more slowly in the tropics than in higher latitudes and polar regions, but the combination of heat and rising humidity will make life more challenging. -
The Covid city– The Covid-19 pandemic has fallen hardest not just on cities but on poorer, overcrowded neighborhoods. Could the pandemic lead to a more advanced and inclusive form of urbanism?
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