A Portal on Sustainability

The population living in big cities is rapidly increasing. In the next 15 years the population of many cities in Asia and Africa will nearly double. What housing patterns will be needed then? Are we going to be squeezed together in a minimum space?

While urban growth is related to increasing poverty and growing pollution, cities and their surrounding areas have to work on those problems with adequate development strategies.

Find more information in our statistics section on World Population and Urban/Rural Population.