In 2008, the world is reaching an important milestone: for the first time in history, half of the world population will be living in urban areas. Urbanization has significant social and economic ...

Benin City has grown from the historic Kingdom of Benin into a vibrant metropolis with the new Museum of West African Art.

Whether the process of urbanization is harnessed and managed, or allowed to fuel growing divides, will largely determine the future of inequality, says UN DESA’s World Social Report 2020. For the ...

The scale of human movement at the local and regional levels in agrarian states, called 'local migration' by Charles Tilly, can be quite extensive. I review several characteristics of such movement, ...

SPECIAL ISSUE NO. 104. Advances in Water Resources, Coastal Management, and Marine Science Technology (FALL 2020), pp. 670-675 (6 pages) Published By: Coastal Education & Research Foundation, Inc.

After 2000, migration from rural to urban areas across the Pan Amazon intensified, as people started moving to either main urban centers or cities in the highlands or on coastlines. In Brazil, already ...

The city of Gondar, one of 117 Ethiopian cities that benefited from the World Bank’s Ethiopia Urban Institutional and Infrastructure Development Program (UIIDP). Photo: Adobe Stock With World Bank ...

CEBU CITY, Cebu (PIA) — The Department of Human Settlement and Urban Development (DHSUD) on Tuesday launched the Planado (Plan & Do) program in Cebu City to address urbanization issues in the country.

NOUAKCHOTT, August 3, 2023— According to the sixth edition of the World Bank’s Economic Update on Mauritania, the country continues to recover from the economic and social impacts of the COVID-19 ...