India is on the verge of a historic change. Known as the country that lives in its villages, it stares at an opposite scenario. In the near future, more people will inhabit the country’s urban areas than ...
The global environmental change (GEC)-cities nexus has been one of START’s primary thematic focus areas for knowledge development in recent years, especially in Asia. In 2013, our prioritized ramping up its kno...
The paper reflects on the link between infectious diseases and urbanization in a typical West African city. It contends that urbanization in Africa has proceeded at an alarming rate without due consideration of...
Urbanization – the spatial concentration of people and economic activity·is arguably the most important social transformation in the history of civilization since man changed from being a nomadic hunter-g...
Pakistan has the highest rate of urbanization in South Asia. According to the 2017 Population Census, 36.4 percent of the population lives in urban areas. In 1998, this gure stood at 32.5 percent. Other estimat...
Over the last 100 years, the world’s urban population has grown more than tenfold, and now close to half the world’s population lives in urban areas. Many aspects of urban change are unprecedented, including no...
Rwanda has a developing housing and housing finance sector – but there are constraints. While Rwanda’s mortgage-to-GDP ratio (3,35 percent) is relatively high for the region, mortgage lending is concentrated at...
Recent South African and international evidence highlights the broad and lasting impacts of households, particularly those on low income, when unable to afford higher-income counterparts to live in apartments, ...
A deep understanding of housing and travel demands and respective costs based on residential location choice is the most important decision that reflects the behavior of a household. This article aims to analyz...
The actualization of affordable housing remains a challenge. This challenge is exacerbated by the increasing societal demand for the incorporation of sustainability principles into such housing types to improve...
Governments or organizations devise an affordable housing strategy providing decent and affordable housing to the people. This paper discusses the strategy devised for the city of Abbotsford. Affordable housing...
The poor initial resilience of the ground-breaking Brazilian urban social housing program ‘Minha Casa, Minha Vida’(MCMV) affects millions of people, who have tried to adapt their homes, survive the unexpected a...
Cities continue to grapple with a rising demand for housing, which affects affordability and the well-being of its citizens. This growth continues to put pressure on the delivery of adequate, affordable housing...
In a context marked by rapid urbanization, growing housing demand, and the worsening impacts of climate change, national governments play a vital role in delivering environmentally sustainable cities with adequ...
Affordable housing is a common concern in developed and developing countries alike. In Pakistan, where the housing demand backlog is an astonishing 10 million units, housing shortage is a function of both quant...
This study investigated the economic comparison between bamboo reinforced concrete called Bamboocrete with the conventional reinforced concrete panel. Materials contribute significantly to the construction cost...
One of the most fundamental human needs is a house. While urbanization occurs tremendously in the cities of Malaysia, the middle-income groups living in the urban areas are facing greater challenges in house ow...
With only ten years to go to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are off track – a situation that has been compounded by the Covid-19 pandemic. ...
The urban environment has distinctive biophysical features in relation to surrounding rural areas. These include an altered energy exchange creating an urban heat island, and changes to hydrology such as increa...