Through 15 in-depth case studies by prominent researchers from around the world, this book examines the major challenges facing megacities today.
As in any major city (or megacity), there is no single profile of a resident of Kibera.
As urban areas continue expanding, major cities become connected forming megacities.
Urbanization is a major force in developing regions where megacities have emerged and will continue to rise and city development paths may be the key to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, conventional air pollutants and vulnerability to environmental change.
A fundamental aspect of this transformation has been the emergence of giant cities, or megacities, that present major new challenges.
Summertime surface ozone (O3) and related secondary formation of fine particles are the major air quality concerns in the megacity of Shanghai.
Kolkata, a famously cultured city of 14.5 million people – once the second city of the British empire after London – is keen to catch up with Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore, the dynamic and rapidly modernising megacities of the fastest growing major economy in the world.
The exorbitant inner-city land price increase in megacity Dhaka is one of the major contributory factors for developers' irregularities in project development, plot registration and plot handover (Alam 2011).
To prevent megacities becoming turbulent dystopias will surely be a major challenge to governance.
Road transport is a major source of air and soil pollution in the most megacities of Russia, which is caused by the rapid growth in the number of cars (Belkina 2008).
