In Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Indus valley, the first urban settlements were built around irrigated farmland. Flooded terrace fields for rice, corn and quinoa accompanied the spread of civilization in ...

This is the introduction to Essential India, a newsletter on a vast and complicated country that will increasingly shape the ...

Cape Town and Chennai in recent years endured punishing droughts. Similar conditions afflicted Bengaluru and Hyderabad last ...

Jakarta surpasses Tokyo as the world’s largest city with 42 million residents, highlighting Asia’s rapid megacity growth, ...

This island archipelago in Asia just beat out Tokyo for the title of the "world's largest city," according to a recent UN ...

The world’s population is increasingly crowded into a group of often low-lying, middle-income megacities in Asia and Africa ...

If Asian countries are to break out of the middle-income trap, they must solve the problems that plague their cities. The ...

Building more infrastructure and opening real economic opportunities in the outer cities and beyond will help relieve Jakarta ...

As a result, Jakarta continues to shoulder the weight of being both Indonesia’s political center and the world’s most ...

As cited by TV BRICS, Long recognised as one of the world's most prominent megacities, Jakarta has served as the nerve centre of Indonesia's economic, cultural, and diplomatic activity.

BMI study notes that more people in region will be affected as global warming accelerates and populations in vulnerable areas ...

A quiet revolution has just taken place in the way the world understands cities. The UN’s World Urbanization Prospects 2025 ...