This Place article talks about new research on urbanisation, which shows that the world is a lot more urban than we think. Excerpts:
"Using a definition made possible by advances in geospatial technology that can use a high-resolution satellite image to determine the number of people living...
IDFC Institute and the Urban Expansion Observatory have developed a new web-mapping tool that allows users to explore the spatial extent of India's urban growth across four decades. Users can visualise urban settlements, population clusters, built-up area and night-time lights going as far back as 1...
LiveMint carried a piece on the pertinent question of "How much of India is actually urban?" using data from IDFC work on Urbanisation. Excerpts below:
"Under the census definition, 31% of the Indian population lived in urban areas in 2011. But the share of urban population which lives in t...
