Movement of people across borders, global, national, and regional, is creating concentrations, unmanageable for the natural carrying capacity as well as for urban governance. This may prove to be the most formidable challenge of the twenty-first century. Urbanization charges ahead remodeling our landscape from a richly endowed terrain with natural, cultural distinctiveness to a compact footprint of constructed monotone (Urbanization in Southeast Asian countries, Singapore 2010). Voluntary and forced migration, natural disasters, and disruption to peace along with the lure of the city have contributed to a global imbalance in population, growth, distribution, and profile. “…the current trend of urban expansion in West and East Asian countries, is less the result of economic growth and more driven by the deepening malaise of urban poverty and informality” (NUA Concrete action 2016; Farrell 2017).
Cities around the world are facing acute challenges in managing this rapid growth of...
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Khanna, N.P. (2020). Urbanization and Urban Growth: Sustainable Cities for Safeguarding Our Future. In: Leal Filho, W., Marisa Azul, A., Brandli, L., Gökçin Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Sustainable Cities and Communities. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95717-3_51
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