Harmonious cities - UN-Habitat

COVER STORY The century of the city
2007 (Thousands ) 2025 (Thousands)
1 Tokyo 35,676 1Tokyo 36,400
2 Mexico City 19,028 2Mumbai 26,385
3 New York-Newark 19,040 3Delhi 22,498
4 São Paulo 18,845 4Dhaka 22,015
5 Mumbai 18,978 5São Paulo l
21,428
6 Delhi 15,926 6 Mexico City 21,009
7 Shanghai 14,987 7New York-Newark 20,628
8 Kolkata 14,787 8 Kolkata 20,560
9 Buenos Aires 12,795 9 Shanghai 19,412
10 Dhaka
Los Angeles-Long -L Beach-
13,485 10Karachi19,095 11 Santa Ana 12,500 11 Kinshasa 16,762
12 Karachi 12,130 12Lagos15,796 13 Rio de Janeiro 11,748
13Cairo15,561
14 Osaka-Kobe 11,294 14Manila
14,808
15 Cairo 11,893 15Beijing14,545 16 Beijing 11,106 16 Buenos Aires
Los Angeles-Long Beach-
13,768
17 Manila 11,100 17 Santa Ana 13,672
18 Moscow 10,452 18 Rio de Janeiro 13,413
19 Istanbul 10,061 19
Jakarta 12,363
20 Istanbul 12,102
21 Guangzhou, Guangdong 11,835
22 Osaka-Kobe 11,368
23 Moscow 10,526
24 Lahore 10,512
25 Shenzhen 10,196
Source: : UN Population Division, , World Urbanisation Prospects, 2007
Note: Population are for urban agglomeration, not city proper.
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Urban and City Gini Coefficients in Latin America
and the Caribbean
Population of the world’s megacities, 2007 and 2025
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WORLD
November 2008
Ring towns, or satellite cities, have sprung up in
Mumbai due to shifting populations
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where ring towns or “bedroom communities”
have formed around cities like New Delhi and
Mumbai. Urban growth patterns in China, on
the other hand, have tended to produce “city
regions” along the eastern coastal belt, which
are responsible for much of the economic
growth experienced by the country in recent
years. In countries like the Philippines and
Indonesia, the trend has been to promote the
growth of intermediate cities in order to direct
migrants away from the largest city.
Latin America and the Caribbean is the
most urbanised region in the developing
world, with one-fifth of the region’s urban
residents living in cities with populations of
five million or more. However, one of the most
distinctive features of urbanisation in the region
is the rapid growth of small cities, which
are home to nearly 40 percent of the region’s
urban population. Another distinctive characteristic
of Latin America and the Caribbean
is that urban growth is often the result of people
moving from one city to another, and not
from rural areas to urban areas. u
Source: UN-HABITAT, State of the World’s
Cities 2008/9.