Guest blogger Antarin Chakrabarty reflects on one Indian state’s successful programme to provide work and incomes to migrants, enabling a rapid and efficient government response when crises such as COVID-19 hit.
David Satterthwaite takes a closer look at drivers and influences of urban change.
Urbanisation is one of the most significant changes taking place globally and within low- and middle-income nations. But understanding what causes or influences it and the spatial distribution of urban populations is complicated. Many (local, regional, national and international) factors and their interactions need to be considered, often in the context of rapid urban population growth.
From the virus-ravaged Ecuadorian city come personal accounts of struggles to survive.
A representative from a grassroots federation in Mumbai describes how the community is self-organising for an effective COVID-19 response.
From Karachi, guest blogger Arif Hasan reports on how the city’s informal settlements are managing the COVID-19 lockdown and discusses how existing government structures can support the city’s settlements during COVID-19 recovery, and beyond.
Which factors determine whether a city makes it onto the list of the world’s fastest growing cities? In the latest in a series focusing on the transition to a predominantly urban world, David Satterthwaite takes a closer look.
When I compiled a list of the world’s 20 fastest growing cities between 2000 to 2020 (see table 1), measured by population growth rates, I thought I had made a mistake. (I often manage to get the exponential growth rate formula wrong).
In the latest in our series of blogs and interviews focusing on the transition to a predominantly urban world, David Satterthwaite looks at community-driven data collection and mapping.
As my previous blog discussed, when censuses are done well (carried out regularly, almost everyone covered) and their data is available to local governments and civil society, they are one of the most precise and inclusive data sources.
In the latest in our series of blogs and interviews about the transition to a predominantly urban world, David Satterthwaite discusses the vast gaps in city data, and explains why planning, governing and servicing cities calls for data that is broken down into city and sub-city level.
How do you plan, manage and govern a city with no data about most enterprises, most workers, most housing and, often, most land transactions and land use changes?
Stories from urban poor communities inspired international audiences at the 10th World Urban Forum.
Taking place every two years, the World Urban Forum (WUF) brings together a host of actors – development professionals from NGOs, representatives of international development agencies, city government officials – from around the globe.
IIED senior fellow David Satterthwaite is curating a series of blogs and interviews on global urban change. In this blog he looks at rapidly growing cities that moved into the list of the top 100 cities, and those that fell off the bottom of the list.
The first two blogs in this series looked at how the list of the world’s 100 largest cities changed from 1800 to today, and provided a more detailed examination of the 20 largest cities.
