NEW YORK, May 9, 2010 — -- On a teeming street in Mumbai's Dharavi slum, amid a colorful swirl of sweet lime carts and red-clay pottery, Pastor Bala Singh brings an assortment of buckets to ...

Parag Khanna is an international relations expert, world traveler and CNN global contributor. I recently spoke with him about his new book, Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization, ...

A historic migration is under way around the world, from the countryside to swelling urban centers. Many of those new arrivals will find a better life. Others won't. For governments, businesses and ...

Mumbai. Shanghai. Tokyo. Beijing. According to the United Nations, megacities—urban areas with a population of ten million or more—housed approximately 12 percent of urban dwellers as of 2014. Here ...

The world’s population is rapidly moving into city centers; by 2050, seven out of every 10 people on Earth will live in a city. But not every city will be a megacity–defined as an urban area with over ...

The massive construction waste collapse last month in Shenzhen reflects a wider phenomenon: the waning of the megacity era. Shenzhen became a megacity (population over 10 million) faster than any ...

Rapid urbanization is one of the major forces shaping our global economic future. A century ago, it was almost unfathomable that any person would want to live in a city with 10 million other people, ...

You learn to put up with a lot when you live in Mexico State. The electricity is always going out, and there’s never enough running water. Commutes of two to three hours are common. Kidnapping is a ...

Paging Thomas Malthus: Your nightmare finally has arrived. Malthus, a British economist, famously predicted in 1798 that population growth eventually would outpace food production, resulting in mass ...

Reducing emissions in a few of the world’s most populous cities could have an outsized impact on climate change. In 2050, 2.5 billion more people will live in cities than do today. As the world grows ...

HONOLULU --- In one city block, future Soldiers could find themselves in an intense gunfight with enemy militants. In another, Soldiers might crawl through debris to rescue trapped residents or ...