Entries tagged ‘Demographics’
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Crowded House: Accra Tries to Make Room for a Population Boom
Can Accra build its way out of a housing crisis? In our fourth Forefront of the Informal City Dialogues, Sharon Benzoni wrestles her way through an incredibly crowded city.
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Nigeria Will Soon Be Bigger Than the U.S. and Other Mind-Boggling Projections
A report released today by the UN shows that the developing world is growing even faster than we thought — and that the end of this century will look radically different than today.
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Lima Roars to Life, Thanks, In Part, To Its Informal Settlements
The Peruvian capital of Manuel Vigo’s youth was a quiet and dodgy place ringed by informal settlements. Today, those settlements have become the city, and the streets crackle with energy.