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Top Ten Cities of World
(Parameters: Business Activity, Human Capital, Information Exchange, Cultural Experience, Political Engagement)
A third concept of the city, the “metropolitan area”, defines its boundaries according to the degree of economic and social interconnectedness of nearby areas, identified by interlinked commerce or commuting patterns, for example.
The world’s cities are growing in both size and number:
One in five people worldwide lives in a city with more than 1 million inhabitants:
Delhi will overtake Tokyo as the world’s largest city by 2030:
Most megacities are located in the global South:
The share of the population residing in cities is increasing in all regions
Most of the world’s fastest growing cities are in Asia and Africa:
Fifty-two cities have experienced population decline since 2000
Most cities are vulnerable to at least one type of natural disaster:
What is China doing right, and what can we learn?
Takeaway for other cities
So how can other global cities or countries emulate these Chinese municipalities, perhaps with fewer financial or governmental resources?
Source: World Cities Report 2016, UN Habitat
Cities are growing everywhere, but as they grow and their problems become more complex, they learn from each other, and from their local communities. In so many areas—urban services, urban housing, growing inequality and exclusion, and safety and security— new challenges are emerging, even when old patterns persist. Cities will always be “rife with problems,” even when they are “filled with promise.” To effectively address these challenges and take advantage of the opportunities of urbanization requires a coherent approach. This approach in the form of a new urban agenda offers a unique opportunity to achieve global strategic goals by harnessing the transformative forces of urbanization:
Source: World Cities Report 2016, UN Habitat
Source: Secretariat for the Convention on Biological Diversity, 2012
Source: World Cities Report 2016, UN Habitat
Innovative municipal finance solutions, such as value-capture, can improve the prospects of developing necessary infrastructure in specific urban areas, reducing spatial inequalities.
Source: World Cities Report 2016, UN Habitat
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