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Cities are increasingly unsafe and unhealthy. Family planning can help curb unsustainable urbanisation.
This mosquito spreads very fast to new areas and can adapt to various climatic conditions, unlike the non-invasive malaria vectors.
Urban expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa and the need for daily mobility
In 2015, 6,700 premature deaths were caused by urban heat – this can be reduced by a third by planting more trees.
East Africa is one of the fastest urbanising regions in the world, but it’s still in the early phases. There’s a big opportunity to get the region’s cities right.
Successive Japanese administrations have tried – and largely failed – to reduce urban overcrowding for 70 years.
Quite how to gauge the size of a city – or where one ends and the next begins – is getting harder to determine. The 21st century belongs to the limitless city.
New towns have had a better track record in places of rapid economic and population growth, such as east Asian countries.
Harnessing the combined effect of trade and urbanisation could significantly boost the economies of African countries.
Cities have the authority and duty to consider children’s rights as part of climate change responses.
The country’s urban centres where unvaccinated people live in crowed settlements are key risk areas.
Governing a city like Lagos, with deep-seated socioeconomic inequalities, is not a job for the fainthearted.
Naturalistic thinking has long helped humanity grapple with complex urban predicaments. What role can it play today?
Cave-specific conservation and protection actions are essential to protect cave habitats for the continued survival of bats, and ultimately, the well-being of humans.
The fast growth of the metropolis and the city’s political significance, to its large informal economy and the challenges residents face.
The changing dynamic between Borneo’s pigs and Indigenous people is a powerful reminder of the fragility of the human-nature connection.
Ghanaian city authorities are focused on addressing problems of poverty, education and health rather than managing green spaces in slums
Much of the commentary on the July riots, which cost over 300 lives and billions of rands in damage to the economy, has neglected the long history of violent protests in the country.
The practice of using electricity revenue surpluses to fund other municipal services is running out of road.
Top contributors
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Fellow, Infrastructure Institute, School of Cities, University of Toronto
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Distinguished Research Fellow, Human Sciences Research Council
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Coalition for Urban Transitions, World Resources Institute
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Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Arizona
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Senior Research Specialist, Human Sciences Research Council
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Research Fellow, The Australasian Centre for Resilience Implementation for Sustainable Communities, Charles Darwin University
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Assistant professor, University of San Francisco
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Research Scholar, Center for Sustainable Urban Development, Climate School, Columbia University
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Clinical Senior Research Associate, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge
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Research Associate, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield, UCL
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Professor School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand
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Medical Entomologist at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi
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Research professor, RMIT University
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Professor of Urban Policy and Director, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Postdoctoral fellow, Decision Science, The University of Queensland
