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 ...

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UN rankings updated using new criteria to better reflect the mass urban transformation driving a global shift in how we live—and the megacities emerging from it. A new United Nations report has ...

VILNIUS, Lithuania--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Global market research company Euromonitor International released a new report, “Megacities: Developing Country Domination,” announcing Jakarta will overtake Tokyo ...

It’s the age of the city. Today more than half the world’s population can be found in cities, and megacities—those with populations of 10 million or more—are on the rise. The world’s largest megacity, ...

Our updated guide to the best things to do and see in Tokyo, from museums and art galleries to restaurants and bars ...

New York is an energy hog, London and Paris use relatively less resources and Tokyo conserves water like a pro. These are just a few of the findings from a new study on 'megacity metabolism' -- the ...

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 ...

At festival times, the locals don sandals and cotton indigo happi coats before heaving the neighbourhood deity through the streets on an ornate palanquin. At harvest, they gather to pound rice cakes.

On a man-made island in Tokyo Bay, garbage is getting a makeover. Tons of waste are trucked here daily to a large industrial building. What can't be recycled is burned and filtered for pollutants. The ...

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