African urbanisation is mostly a result of natural population growth.
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Built history is often swallowed up by Nigeria's chaotic urbanisation.
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It's chiefly a comparison of global urbanisation and Australian suburbanisation.
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Urbanisation itself is welcome, because it boosts incomes and growth.
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But the country's increasing urbanisation has also played a part.
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Rapid urbanisation is drawing millions away from areas like south Punjab.
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But museums and dictionaries are feeble defence against globalisation and urbanisation.
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Urbanisation should also play a role in promoting openly contested politics.
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Demography, mobility trends and urbanisation all require copious amounts of fuel.
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Where is this next wave of urbanisation supposed to come from?
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"The whole campaign has little to do with urbanisation," he said.
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Nor has urbanisation transformed family life as much as you might expect.
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Urbanisation helps to explain the changing relationship between humans and their pets.
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But both economic growth and the pace of urbanisation are tailing off.
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Yet their worries over globalisation, urbanisation and homogenisation overlap strikingly with Brexiteers'.
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The company executes the government's urbanisation plan for the Chongqing Nan'an district.
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War and urbanisation have combined to chase rural people from the land.
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Urbanisation in Istanbul has been a source of concern for many Turks.
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Ms Das Gupta thinks that urbanisation is a more powerful force for change.
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Yet urbanisation is not bringing Africa the prosperity it brought to other continents.
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Economists only understand a small portion of the effects of migration and urbanisation.
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In 1970 India's urbanisation rate stood at 20%, higher than both China's and Indonesia's.
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Urbanisation, rising demand and two years of severe drought have shrivelled the sacred river.
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Reducing it requires urgent action by governments to change the unsustainable course of urbanisation.
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Thomas Reardon, who studies food at Michigan State University, says that urbanisation is driving demand.
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Accelerating urbanisation, bringing with it a much wider degree of anonymity, is an important factor.
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The traffic is the result of decades of rapid urbanisation coupled with neglect of infrastructure.
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In 2014 the central government issued a plan for what it called "new-type urbanisation".
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And construction jobs, a well-trodden pathway to urbanisation, are currently hard to come by.
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Despite the hidden champions' success, urbanisation continues apace, as rocketing house prices in large cities indicate.
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The aim is to promote urbanisation, while slowing the rate at which Chongqing loses arable land.
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That urbanisation process is now slowing, however, as relatively few young people remain in rural China.
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Some developers welcomed the move, saying the proposal is part and parcel of China's urbanisation process.
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Rapid urbanisation and continued immigration flows challenge the province with a continued need for infrastructure investments.
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Ethnicities and identities often commingle and change, a process spurred by social media, migration and urbanisation.
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Habitats are being lost to urbanisation: cities have doubled in size in the past 30 years.
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He said his Interior, Health, and Environment and Urbanisation ministers were in the region for inspections.
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Such a distance from urbanisation may just be the secret to the remarkable beauty of the place.
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Space is the main constraint and with rapid urbanisation, cities are becoming more crowded than ever before.
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Third, soil pollution is affecting more people than it used to because of economic change and urbanisation.
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The belief that urbanisation in China has slowed significantly reinforces expectations of weaker demand growth for copper.
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Returning migrants will find that urbanisation has changed village life, too, by creating a shortage of people.
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But rising urbanisation in Africa could spur governments to breathe new life into the development minerals sector.
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For decades, the most corrupt African leaders have tried to resist urbanisation lest it threaten their rule.
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Gradually improving education, urbanisation and rising incomes all mean the national rate of early marriage is falling.
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Fitch believes the trend in leverage and coverage will continue due to ongoing urbanisation and infrastructure improvement.
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More broadly, Emil is tapping into current trends such as growing environmental awareness, urbanisation and car-sharing.
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Such a move would once have been unthinkable for a nation that considers urbanisation a ticket to prosperity.
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One of the main reasons for lower urbanisation is that subsidies to farmers make small rural holdings sustainable.
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It also arises from Africa's idiosyncratic urbanisation, whereby cities are growing fast but opportunities in them are not.
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The factors contributing to type 2 are well known; poor diets, urbanisation and low physical activity increase susceptibility.
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The backdrop of Ms Kan's narrative is unprecedented economic growth, mass urbanisation and the cultural changes they engendered.
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But it fails to acknowledge that it is at fault, too, with its top-down approach to urbanisation.
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The very idea that "there is no alternative" has been hard-wired into the fabric of contemporary urbanisation.
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China's new five-year plan for economic and social development, approved in March, calls for "people-centred urbanisation".
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Urbanisation has since trebled in those two countries, to around 55%; in India, it is just over 30%.
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When combined into a statistical model, race, age, education and urbanisation account for only an 18-point gap.
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Xinhua said the fund will invest in resources, construct industrial parks and promote urbanisation in China's poorest regions.
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But as the population grew and urbanisation increased, the government gave up this role to the private sector.
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Ballooning waistlines are often blamed on the shift towards modern diets, urbanisation and falling levels of physical activity.
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Unchecked urbanisation and climate change mean that Bangkok could be mostly submerged by its own weight by 2030.
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The advent of satellite imaging has helped, providing researchers with better estimates of manufacturing output, coal production and urbanisation.
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Rapid urbanisation means that fewer people grow their own grain, and more have the cash to try new varieties.
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Climate change, parasites, the intensification of pesticide use, urbanisation and an obsession with tidiness are causing colonies to collapse.
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The sheer scale of urbanisation and population growth, their thinking runs, will be enough to make the numbers work.
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Such rapid urbanisation has often happened without proper urban planning, allowing slums to expand without basic infrastructure and services.
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"Urbanisation has created its own value system, as well as a big number of grey areas," says Mr Agirdir.
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With rapid urbanisation, the situation is worsening as Kenya's cities are growing by 500,000 people a year, it said.
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In September Zhang Xiaohuan, a government researcher, warned of a familiar problem in this supposedly new approach to urbanisation.
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He expects China's city gas to see another 10 to 15 years of rapid growth amid China's ongoing urbanisation.
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This can work for a while: China still has scope to grow through industrial reforms, urbanisation and partial deregulation.
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Queued up behind China, other fast-growing developing countries with large populations are embarking on the same urbanisation process.
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As they pursue the same path towards greater urbanisation, their per capita energy consumption is set to increase substantially.
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The country's continued urbanisation will likely drive significant increases in per capita energy consumption for the next several decades.
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But officials say demand has outstripped supply due to rapid urbanisation, resulting in a shortage of 2.1 million homes.
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And it will only become more common elsewhere, as urbanisation and growing wealth mean apartment and office blocks spring up.
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Yet urbanisation also tends to put a strain on resources as more people compete for space, jobs, water and energy.
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That is one reason why urbanisation in Africa does not reduce poverty as much as it does in other continents.
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It identified rapid urbanisation and the asymmetric advantages that cities offer opponents as the two principal causes of this shift.
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The mix of causes in each country is unique but in every case rapid, chaotic urbanisation makes the problem worse.
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Without exception, high-income economies have high levels of urbanisation: urban living, rising energy use and rising incomes go together.
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Urbanisation intensifies the risk to health: cities are hotter places than the surrounding countryside, and more people are moving into them.
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Stalin's crash industrialisation and urbanisation was designed to create a militarised autarky with a total disregard for cost, financial or human.
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It has a lower urbanisation rate than its neighbours, and a bigger urban-rural wage gap, with little sign of change.
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The WHO says the Aedes aegypti mosquito has shown "a remarkable ability to adapt to changing environments," including rapid unplanned urbanisation.
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Lower interest rates are boosting investments in real-estate and infrastructure, while population growth and urbanisation are also supporting building projects.
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They were also the places where China's growth and urbanisation took off quickest after 1980, so have relatively few rural dwellers.
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Urbanisation, mass migration, the private company and the stretching of supply chains across thousands of miles have wrecked those personal networks.
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The amount of waste that countries produce tends to grow in tandem with their economies, and especially with the rate of urbanisation.
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Likewise urbanisation, another familiar way to alleviate poverty: city-dwelling women are half as likely as rural ones to have a job.
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Lower-Tier Cities Riskier: Hydoo's trade centres are mainly in tier-3 and tier-4 cities to tap relocation and urbanisation demand.
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Both store formats respond not just to online pressure, but to generational trends like urbanisation, demand for sustainability and reduced car use.
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The decline was most likely due to a combination of factors, from changing farming practices to loss of ponds and greater urbanisation.
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But Nigerians are no more immune to the family-shrinking pressures of urbanisation and economic change than Europeans or Asians have been.
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According to one 2007 study of 90 developing countries, Africa is the only region where urbanisation is not correlated with poverty reduction.
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Urbanisation Minister Mehmet Ozhaseki told reporters on Saturday state investments have so far focused on reconstruction of buildings damaged in the conflict.
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This is thanks partly to education and urbanisation, and partly to decades of campaigning by the UN and activists publicising the harms.
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But even those data are not entirely trustworthy: it later transpired that the researchers had underestimated urbanisation in the densely populated Niger delta.
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Then industrialisation and urbanisation brought workers into closer proximity, providing both an opportunity to organise and a reason—to negotiate pay and conditions.
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Every three years a group led by the Urban China Initiative (UCI), a think-tank, prepares a detailed report on the country's urbanisation.
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This, together with urbanisation, means that more logistics space is needed to deliver in bulk to large stores and to make individual deliveries.
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The starting point of "Free Speech" is twofold: that increasing urbanisation and the spread of the internet makes the world a "global city".
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They appear to accept that urbanisation will cause some homelessness, and that this will not threaten stability as much as they once feared.
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Urbanisation absorbs surplus labour from the countryside, facilitating the reorganisation of farms into larger and more efficient units, increasing productivity in rural areas.
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It also said the government aims to increase the urbanisation rate by at least 1 percentage point by the end of this year.
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Quite a few experienced periods of urbanisation and economic reform that helped pull workers into factory and office employment, at higher productivity levels.
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Beyond its size is Africa's low rate of urbanisation: some two-thirds of people on the continent live on farms or in small villages.
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Big cities, in particular, have neither the independence nor the political clout to cope with rapid urbanisation, let alone to plan for the future.
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So may rising levels of urbanisation and education, which have been associated with the spread of more doctrinaire forms of Islam in other countries.
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China's development followed the Soviet path in some respects: industrialisation meant rapid urbanisation and the adoption of production techniques long established in richer economies.
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Other state bodies, including the Environment and Urbanisation Ministry, which issued the home-ownership laws, declined or did not respond to requests for comment.
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In some cases, this pressure is a result of China's rising level of urbanisation, which last year reached 58%, up from 45% a decade earlier.
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Atlantic; £20How urbanisation and the spread of the internet has increased the possibilities of freedom of expression, but also the consequences that stem from it.
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Rapid urbanisation is putting pressure on water supplies after two years of drought, with the capital relying on Haryana to meet much of its needs.
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Development in many Asian cities experiencing rapid urbanisation is often unstructured and unsustainable, said Manoj Sharma, an urban development specialist at the ADB in Manila.
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Two-thirds of Indians don't drink alcohol, often for religious or cultural reasons, but rapid urbanisation and a rising middle class are changing consumer habits.
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The Milky Way has fascinated humans for centuries, often starring in legends and immortalised in photographs, but with increasing urbanisation it's becoming eclipsed from view.
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The resurgence has its roots in human demography: the shrinking of Japan's population is especially acute in rural areas, where it is exacerbated by ongoing urbanisation.
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With the total amount of arable land falling as a result of urbanisation and soil erosion (see chart), China cannot afford to contaminate what is left.
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Thus far, China has followed a familiar script, albeit on a huge scale: urbanisation of rural populations, and investment in infrastructure, low-cost manufacturing and exports.
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As economies become more electrified, with "supergrids" to handle the additional power demand from urbanisation, electric vehicles and unimaginable quantities of data, the risks could multiply.
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The church was started in 1977 by Edir Macedo, an ex-lottery official, coinciding with a wave of urbanisation and the spread of new communications technology.
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Under the campaign, any price increases due to rising exchange rates will be discounted from the cost of the residence, the environment and urbanisation minister said.
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Qinghai officials said earlier this year the risk of plague spreading to regions with high population densities had increased because of urbanisation, new infrastructure and tourism.
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Experts have made links between urbanisation and income growth, pointing to increased economic output per capita as the percentage of people living in urban areas has risen.
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For this, you can blame climate change and lack of land availability for farmers due to urbanisation, but fortunately, there won't be an overall shortage of potatoes.
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Cattle take longer to mature and farming requires large amounts of land, but China's rapid urbanisation over the past decade has reduced the availability of quality grassland.
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Some date from Japan's great post-war migration to coastal cities; others were abandoned more recently, as urbanisation continued and as the population has shrunk and aged.
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China is perhaps half-way along the path of urbanisation marked out earlier by the advanced economies ("Patterns of urban and rural population growth", United Nations, 1980).
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It is rooted in a sense of social injustice that is intrinsically connected with the pattern of uneven urbanisation that began in the 1940s and continues today.
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Increased urbanisation, longer-running conflicts and a rise in the number of schools and hospitals being targeted heightened the danger for children, according to Save the Children.
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But even if the government finds a fudge for the dispute in Dong Tam, lots more farmland will be paved over before Vietnam's galloping urbanisation runs its course.
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Restraining pell-mell urbanisation may sound like a good thing, but it worries the government's economists, since bigger cities are associated with higher productivity and faster economic growth.
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China's state planner last week drew up a plan for urbanisation, including improvements to infrastructure projects in medium-sized and small cities and an expansion of transportation systems.
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It is not "better" than classical music because it is "of the people", he argues, nor is it an antidote for modern ills caused by urbanisation and commercialisation.
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Driving this are urbanisation and the spread of mobile phones, which make it easier to organise protests, says Judd Devermont of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies.
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Sales must be handled prudently—once an asset is sold, it's gone—but they are like a development bonus, topping up the coffers so long as urbanisation continues.
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China's current level of urbanisation is roughly the same as the United States in 225, according to census data ("Historical statistics of the United States", Census Bureau, 265).
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But greater density and urbanisation also tends to raise productivity, which in turn increases incomes and total demand for energy services, including heating, cooling, lighting, power and transportation.
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Lower-Tier Cities More Risky: Hydoo's trade centres are mainly in Tier 3 and Tier 4 cities spread across 10-12 cities to tap relocation and urbanisation demand.
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"The changes observed in China have been attributed to economic growth, urbanisation, improved standards of living, and better access to medical care in rural areas," the authors wrote.
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The country's per capita consumption of petrochemicals will rise with its expanding middle class, growing income levels and increasing urbanisation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in March last year.
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The warning signals that even a big improvement in infrastructure in the past two decades has failed to keep pace with the rapid growth of economies, population and urbanisation.
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Ant's giddy growth is both a cause and a consequence of big changes in Chinese life: development, urbanisation and the emergence of a vast middle class ready to spend.
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According to the research team, one of the biggest threats to koalas is human-driven habitat loss, thanks to a cheeky huge amount of of land clearing and urbanisation.
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The app has been designed to help identify different frog species across Australia, and map where they are most at risk from climate change, habitat loss, disease, and urbanisation.
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Under Bo, Chongqing became one of China's fastest-growing regions, helped by a crackdown on corruption, corporate tax breaks, the pursuit of foreign investment, and rapid urbanisation and industrialisation.
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"With a growing population and continuing urbanisation, Sub-Saharan Africa is set to see a significant rise in sugar consumption in the coming years," Rabobank said in a report.
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RISING ENERGY CONSUMPTION In every recent historical case, the process of urbanisation and economic development has been accompanied by an enormous increase in the consumption of energy per capita.
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PSBC plays a key role in the provision of financial services to microfinance and rural customers to support China's stimulus and urbanisation efforts to counteract domestic and external pressures.
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Speaking to me from her bedroom in Stockholm, she runs through just a few of the things she finds frustrating: the way we use the internet to selectively curate the information we want, urbanisation in Sweden that sees people moving to the city from small countryside towns which then lose funds for hospitals and schools, countries closing their borders to refugees when resettlement could help to alleviate the effects of urbanisation on small towns.
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Asian women have more freedom and opportunity than before, and thanks to urbanisation fewer have access to the highly toxic pesticides that were once the group's favoured means of suicide.
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Sales for subsequent phases of Hydoo's large-scale integrated trade centre projects - those greater than 400,0003 sq m - hinge on continued urbanisation, which may slow due to growing market uncertainty.
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As other developing economies catch up with Latin America's level of urbanisation, understanding the process's links to criminality, and which forms of policing best sever them, is of international concern.
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Average global temperatures are already 133°C higher than in pre-industrial times; along with urbanisation, electrification and rising incomes in developing countries, this is boosting demand for air-conditioning.
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The Chinese will rely heavily on residential care, thanks to the country's one-child policy and increasing urbanisation: two parents and four grandparents often depend on one child far away.
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In the longer term, however, fuel-efficiency standards will rise, public transport will improve, denser urbanisation may dent the appeal of owning cars and electric vehicles may become more popular.
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In every case, greater urbanisation and the associated increase in the number of middle-class households with more discretionary income has helped fuel a big net increase in energy use.
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BEIJING, April 8 (Reuters) - China will relax residency curbs in small cities this year, the country's state planner said on Monday, in a renewed push for urbanisation in the country.
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Environment and Urbanisation Minister Murat Kurum, who spoke alongside Soylu on Saturday, said five buildings in Elazig had collapsed in the quake and there were several other heavily damaged structures.
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MSCI's index of emerging market stocks rose for the ninth straight session, with Chinese blue chips rising 0.4 percent after Beijing took steps to encourage urbanisation to support economic growth.
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"We are learning good lessons from Japan's experience dealing with urbanisation since the 1950s, especially in terms of balancing social and environmental concerns and the economy," he added in emailed comments.
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Ms FitzGerald explains how, along with these internal conflicts, urbanisation, war and immigration shaped the evangelical world, just as evangelicals, "the most American of religious groups", helped to shape the nation.
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Academics started to talk excitedly about "peak driving", offering explanations such as urbanisation, ageing baby-boomers, car-shy millennials, ride-sharing apps such as Uber and even the distraction of Facebook.
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And no one knows whether caste plays a role, although suicide rates seem to rise with wealth and urbanisation, before falling again as the newly urbanised grow accustomed to their environment.
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But communal grazing land in Kajiado County, where they live, is fast vanishing, as a result of sales, division of land and rapid urbanisation, with Kenya's capital, Nairobi, not far away.
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But any demographer worth their salt, or any competent person tasked with putting together a chart on urbanisation, knows that US urban populations are defined very differently than those in Australia.
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The Clean Air unit was the biggest contributor to profit last year as it benefited from Europe's stricter emission rules and developing nations' move to control pollution generated by rapid urbanisation.
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"Urbanisation, young people's desire for community, as well as the opportunity to live and work in different cities, are boosting demand for communal residential space," said Corestate Chief Executive Michael Buetter.
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ZADSHI VILLAGE, India (Reuters) - Three years ago, brick mason Pundlik Bhandekar was always busy as farmers in his tiny hamlet in Maharashtra commissioned new houses and nearby towns were undergoing rapid urbanisation.
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Rising income levels, increasing urbanisation, lower mortgage interest rates over the past year and easier capital regulations for loans to mid-segment home buyers are driving demand for housing units in India.
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The company's rise has coincided with a boom in the German real estate market driven by ultra-low interest rates, urbanisation and the attraction to economic migrants exerted by Europe's largest economy.
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The rapid urbanisation of China's cities - and the mass migration of parents seeking work in urban China — has led to increasingly empty schools that used to be the center of China's villages.
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China's fertility rate has fallen to 1.6, which Mr Feng ascribes mostly to urbanisation, rising university attendance and the opportunity cost of having babies in a country that is quickly becoming richer.
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Citing "urbanisation, ageing infrastructure and limited municipal maintenance capacity" as reasons for the worsening conditions, sanitation department spokesman Sputnik Ratau said that 1.1 billion rand ($75 million) had been earmarked for repairs.
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Rajasthan state last year said it would set up an independent authority to verify and guarantee land titles in its cities, as demand for real estate rises on the back of rapid urbanisation.
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China's urbanisation will likely continue for the next few decades, assuming the country follows the same trajectory as every one of the advanced economies in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
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But the rapid growth and urbanisation that accompanied Deng Xiaoping's "reform and opening up" policies after 1978 also launched a museum-building boom that did far more than simply replace what had been lost.
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But more than half of Turkey's building stock, or 13 million buildings, contravenes housing regulations, according to Environment and Urbanisation Ministry data, and many Istanbul residents worry about potential damage from a major earthquake.
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But Urbanisation Minister Mehmet Ozhaseki said in March the government would provide housing for all those left homeless by the destruction in Sur, one of seven areas of southeast Turkey that are being redeveloped.
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Speaking on the eve of the United Nations Habitat III conference in Quito, Ecuador, on Sunday, the mayors outlined a united vision in which local government would lead the global response to rising urbanisation.
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Activists acknowledge that land reform, like in many other countries, is a highly political issue but argue that securing tenure for the landless will help stem the rapid and uncontrolled urbanisation India currently faces.
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Rising income levels, increasing urbanisation, lower mortgage interest rates over the past year and easier capital regulations for loans to mid-segment home buyers are expected to drive demand for housing units in India.
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Artisanal communities like Tikvah's, whether in my native Britain, southern Europe, mid-west America or Middle East—heck, anywhere in the world—have been under threat from the creeping hands of urbanisation and globalisation.
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Zhejiang province, where Xi worked from 257.35 to 2100, is known for its small towns such as Yucheng and the president has personally endorsed the charming towns movement as a new approach to urbanisation.
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Schierenbeck says this will trim space requirements by an estimated 40 percent when deliveries begin in 2019 in the Middle East and Asia, target markets where cramped quarters and urbanisation are sending buildings ever higher.
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Large-scale urbanisation, smaller and more fluid families, the move of women into the labour market and the digitisation of many aspects of life have inevitably changed the way that people bring up their children.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's finance minister said on Monday fast economic growth and rapid urbanisation would slash the number of people in extreme poverty by 2021 and end it completely in the decade after that.
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" She continues: "Rapid urbanisation demands supply elasticity — the test for the top Alpha cities is to supply new business quarters and residential neighbourhoods while capturing the characteristics that made the city attractive in the first place.
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The forecast for the average copper price this year at $230,858 a tonne is the lowest since the average of $3,600 in 2005 when the commodities super-cycle was starting, fuelled by China's industrialisation and urbanisation.
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Devising smarter ways to get around - known in the industry as smart mobility - looks set to become a new battleground for automakers as urbanisation grows, pollution worsens, and more cars clog up cities in emerging markets.
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Rising population, incomes and urbanisation will drive a 78 percent increase in meat and seafood demand from 2017 to 2050, according to a report by Asia Research and Engagement Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based consultancy firm.
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The Audi brand is to unveil a new strategy at the end of July, which will encompass digitalisation, sustainability and urbanisation, chief executive Rupert Stadler told Automobilwoche magazine in an interview in its July 11 edition.
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URBANISATION BEYOND CHINA India's rural population has fallen from 80% of the total in the 1960s but is still as high as 67% far behind China and roughly where the United States was in the 1880s.
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The Hollywood environmentalist urged his Facebook followers to join the "Cauvery Calling" campaign to plant more than 2 billion trees along the banks of the Cauvery river, which is drying up due to urbanisation and pollution.
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Dubbed the Silicon Savannah, Konza aims to become a smart city - using tech to manage water and electricity efficiently and reduce commuting time - and a solution to the rapid, unplanned urbanisation which has plagued existing cities.
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But if you're relying on the RBA's comparison of urbanisation around the world, or the multitude of media reports that have unquestionably replicated the claims, as an underpinning for high house prices, you're relying on bad data.
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What ties them together, and sets them apart from cities elsewhere in the world, according to the Brookings Institution, an American think-tank, is that urbanisation has not been driven by increasing agricultural productivity or by industrialisation.
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China plans to reach an urbanisation rate of 60 per cent by 2020 – up from 57.35 per cent at the end of last year – by moving about 100 million farmers from rural areas to cities and towns.
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QUITO, Ecuador (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 60 mayors from around the world have joined forces to create an alliance dubbed a 'global parliament' to demand a more powerful role in the management of city growth and urbanisation.
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When Woolworths opened its second store in Ghana in 2014, it was betting on year-on-year economic growth, coupled with rising household incomes, increasing urbanisation and a significant emerging middle class, according to its 2014 press release.
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According to government statistics, 13 percent of South Africa's 16.9 million households live in informal settlements such as Marikana, which have sprung up on privately-owned land around the country's cities as rapid urbanisation strains inadequate housing supplies.
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Countries already experiencing unrest or negative effects of climate change were most at risk but seemingly stable regions could also be affected by a combination of climate change, rapid urbanisation and increasing inequality, Adelphi said in a study.
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ANKARA, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Turkey's Emlak Bank has applied for an operation licence and is expected to open its main branch and receive permission from the banking watchdog in 2019, Environment and Urbanisation Minister Murat Kurum said on Wednesday.
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A separate paper by a group of researchers led by James Allan of the University of Queensland identifies "hotspots" where the greatest number of land animals are threatened by human activities such as agriculture, urbanisation and transport (see map).
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India is small compared to China, where Suez had revenue of 1.2 billion euros in 2015, but rapid urbanisation is creating opportunities and Pouliquen estimates its drinking water market at $3 billion and its waste water market at $750 million.
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With the help of interactive installations the curators will present brand new scientific research results on Mayan urbanisation of the rainforest, with a detailed catalogue to help decipher the wonders of Mayan architecture, life, script and art, Mr Grube promised.
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JAKARTA, Nov 29 (Reuters) - The chairman of Chinese property-to-entertainment conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group said on Tuesday that there is a property bubble in China but the sector won't collapse as there is still a significant potential for urbanisation.
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More recently, China's state planner announced a scheme this month to ease residency curbs in small cities, amid a renewed push to accelerate urbanisation, which many analysts say would enable more out-of-towners to buy properties in the city, boosting property demand.
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Short of a repeat, or a rewrite of the constitution, Democrats must come to terms with the way that America's political system, designed before mass urbanisation, rewards the party that holds the most territory rather than the one that wins the most votes.
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Positive Industry Outlook: Fitch expects China's consumer appliance sales to increase by mid to high single digits in the next few years, driven mostly by replacement demand and product upgrades as a result of higher disposable income, urbanisation and modernisation in the country.
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TEPIC, Mexico, Sept 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Global waste could grow by 70 percent by 2050 as urbanisation and populations rise, said the World Bank on Thursday, with South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa set to generate the biggest increase in rubbish.
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His sprawling array of firms, which are listed as Vedanta Limited and Hindustan Zinc in India and Vedanta Resources in London, are mainly a play on Indian growth and urbanisation; they make most money selling zinc within India to turn into galvanised steel.
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"Demand for copper into the next decade is forecast to remain strong, as the traditional drivers of economic development and urbanisation are supplemented by new demand from investment in clean energy generation and the increased adoption of electric vehicles," Kaz Minerals said.
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"As the private educational sector in China becomes more competitive, driven by the rising middle class and increased urbanisation, large educational companies want to do IPOs or borrow to get a stronger hold on and increase their market share," said a Macau-based loan banker.
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Positive Industry Outlook: Fitch expects sales in China's consumer appliance sector to register mid- to high-single-digit growth in the next few years, driven mostly by replacement demand and product upgrades as a result of higher disposable income, urbanisation and modernisation in the country.
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They range from broad social and demographic trends such as urbanisation, changes in family structure and the large-scale move of women into the labour force in recent decades to a shifting emphasis in policy on the early years and the march of digital technology.
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Since then, however, China's massive money supply, urbanisation and a mortgage loan boom have resulted in a hefty rise in household debt, which is now equivalent to 44.4 per cent of national gross domestic product, triple the level in 2008, according to the Bank for International Settlements.
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In fact, he says, most of China's decline in fertility rates happened in the 1970s and was caused by such forces as urbanisation and women's education, which led to very similar changes in other Asian nations like Thailand and South Korea that eschewed mandatory limits on births.
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East Asia's urban areas include eight "megacities" with populations of over 10 million; 123 large cities of between 1 million and 10 million people; and 738 medium and small cities with 100,000 to 1 million people, shows the report, which analysed satellite imagery and population models to chart urbanisation.
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"While Saudi Arabia's growth is expected to face a slowdown in 2016, we believe that the food and drink sector will benefit from structural factors, including favourable demographics, higher employment of locals in the private sector and increasing levels of urbanisation," said a note by Riyadh-based Aljazira Capital.
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At an urbanisation forum in July, Xu Lin, the director of development planning at the National Development and Reform Commission, said many charming towns had turned out to be "ghost towns" without any residents or actual industries, and it was common for one town to blindly copy another.
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But Professor Lu Ming, an economist at Shanghai Jiaotong University, said it would be an exaggeration to claim the charming town campaign could become the key to a new model of urbanisation because the total population of the 1,000 towns was a drop in the ocean of China's urban population.
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Based on the counties around the 100 largest cities, Bill Frey of the Brookings Institution, a think-tank, distinguishes between three sorts of suburb: inner "mature" ones in which 75-95% of the land is built upon; outer "emerging" ones with 25-75% urbanisation; and "exurbs" with less than 25% of land developed.
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However, the director general of WHO has stated that the biggest threat to human health is from non-communicable diseases which are "driven by the effects of globalisation on marketing and trade, rapid urbanisation and population ageing—factors over which the individual has little control and over which the health sector has little sway".
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But eventually, it will be near universal because so many trends are converging behind its spread: ageing, since old people are more vulnerable to heat stroke; urbanisation, since fields cannot be air-conditioned but offices and factories must be; and economic growth, since, after mobile phones, the middle class in emerging markets want fans or air-conditioners next.
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"This ultimately led to the so-called 'Neolithic demographic transition' where the widespread use of animal milk to feed babies, or as a supplementary weaning food, led to improved nutrition and contributed to an increased birth rate, with shorter interbirth intervals, which resulted in significant growth in human population and ultimately led to the growth of cities and the rise of urbanisation that we see today," Dunne wrote in an email.
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No change to text.) * China's property sector supported by urban potential - Wang * Wanda wants to own 20 pct of global cinemas in 10 years * On Trump, Wang said "we have to give him a chance" By Eveline Danubrata JAKARTA, Nov 29 (Reuters) - The chairman of Chinese property-to-entertainment conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group said on Tuesday that there is a property market bubble in China but the industry won't collapse as there is still a significant potential for urbanisation.
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