 | Asia and Africa home to the 100 fastest growing cities in the world 31-10-2007 Whereas Europe used to be home to the world's largest and fastest growing
cities in the world in the past century, Asia and Africa are now the two
continents experiencing the greatest urban growth. Today, Africa has a larger
urban population than North America, and Asia hosts half of the world's urban
population. These are some of the results in a report published by the
'International Institute for Environment and Development' (IIED) in the 2007
edition of its analysis of urban change.
The research draws attention to the gap between rapid urban growth and
government capacity to plan and manage it in most of Africa, Asia and Latin
America. The paper draws on the latest urban data from the UN's Population
Division and IIED's review of 70 recent censuses. It analyses which cities are
growing most rapidly and which are shrinking in population terms, and discusses
the social, economic and political causes and their implications for sustainable
development.
Source: International Institute for Environment & Development (IIED) LinksClick here to view the statistics on urban growth on the City Mayors website back |
