FUTURE LAGOS | Lagos in the News – September 2015
These are the current news headlines coming out of Lagos
Posts Tagged 'population growth'
Watch: Lagos Rising – Where next for “Africa’s London”?
Lagos is the world’s fastest growing megacity, riding on a lucrative oil industry and expanding economy. But while skyscrapers furnish the business elite, millions in the city’s slums wonder if they will benefit.
Cities are on the Move: Visualizing the Flow of Rotterdam’s Urban Landscape
As infrastructure and citizens become more technologically-enabled than ever before, this concept of urban flow becomes easier to measure. The immense amount of data generated in cities can offer us an improved understanding of how everything from water to waste to people to cargo moves around. All these collective actions of the city form part of the urban metabolism.
Mapping 50 years of urban growth in Lagos
The growth of the urban footprint of Lagos over the past 50 years.
WATCH: Urbanisation and the evolution of cities across 10,000 years.
About 10,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers, aided by rudimentary agriculture, moved to semi-permanent villages and never looked back. With further developments came food surpluses, leading to commerce, specialisation and, many years later with the Industrial Revolution, the modern city. Vance Kite plots our urban past and how we can expect future cities to adapt to our growing populations.
Inspiring Change for Regenerative Cities
The world is undergoing the largest wave of urban growth in human history. For the first time in history, more than half of the world’s population is living in towns and cities and the number of urban residents is growing by nearly 60 million every year.
Urban Ingenuity Series: Reflecting on Challenges and Opportunities
The world’s cities are experiencing massive population growth. Meeting the escalating demand for these services is challenging. So what can be done?