As cities grow, their vulnerability to natural disasters increases, threatening lives and assets. Since 1985, over 75,000 km 2 of new urban land, equivalent to about 50 times the area of Greater London, has been developed in areas prone to severe flooding. Globally, 1.81 billion people – one in four – live in high-risk flood zones, with the ...

Jan 26, 2015 · The urban population of the Bangkok urban area grew from 7.8 million people to 9.6 million between 2000 and 2010, a relatively modest annual growth rate of 2.0%. It has the ninth largest population in East Asia. Like most large urban areas in the region, Bangkok is administratively fragmented, with more than 60% of the urban area located ...

Jan 26, 2015 · As of 2010, the Kuala Lumpur urban area was the eighth largest in the region, larger than some megacity urban areas like Jakarta, Manila, and Seoul despite its smaller population. Despite being the eighth-largest urban area in size, because of its low density, the Kuala Lumpur urban area was only the 22 nd largest in population. The overall ...

Jan 26, 2015 · Cambodia has the fourth-smallest amount of urban land among the countries studied (after the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Papua New Guinea, and Timor-Leste). The amount of urban area grew from 110 square kilometers in 2000 to 160 in 2010.

Apr 1, 2013 · Urban Growth and Spatial Transition in Nepal: An Initial Assessment provides insights into the first of these two transitions – Nepal’s journey towards becoming a predominantly urban economy. A Changing Country. A largely rural country, with only 17 percent of the population living in urban areas, Nepal is urbanizing rapidly. With a ...

Improving urban planning and implementation. To realize the long-term vision of the city’s Master Plan 2035, enabling regulations and codes, existing urban planning processes, and technical capacity for implementation need strengthening. Investing in sustainable urban infrastructure.

The rapid expansion of urban area relative to urban population reflects the sprawl and ribbon development that are characteristic of Sri Lanka’s urban development. Sri Lanka is one of five nations in the region – Bangladesh, India, Maldives and Pakistan are the others – where official estimates of the urban share of the population are ...

Urban centers’ share of emissions is only expected to grow, as urban areas accommodate 2.5 billion additional inhabitants by 2050 including rural-to-urban migrants in search of better livelihoods and quality of life -- or those who are forced to migrate due to conflict and increasingly frequent climate disasters.

Jul 13, 2016 · Regenerating Urban Land: A Practitioner’s Guide to Leveraging Private Investment looks at regeneration programs from eight cities around the world – Ahmedabad, Buenos Aires, Johannesburg, Santiago, Singapore, Seoul, Shanghai, and Washington DC – documenting the journeys they have faced in tackling major challenges in this area.

Building stronger capacities to plan, implement, and finance urban development. It will be necessary to tailor many of the policy actions required to ACT according to the type of place. For example, according to whether an urban area is a large metropolis, such as Jakarta or Surabaya, or a smaller, less connected urban area such as Bima.