Almost 1,000 cities, towns and villages in the U.S. lost their status as urban areas on Thursday as the U.S. Census Bureau released a new list of places considered urban based on revised criteria.

Lewis Dijkstra takes the LSE stage again to share his insights on population growth and stresses the role of natural change as the dominant source of urban growth when using a harmonised definition of ...

More than 1,100 cities, towns and villages in the U.S. lost their status as urban areas on Thursday as the U.S. Census Bureau released a new list of places considered urban based on revised criteria.

The Cañada-Blanch Centre at LSE brings a new Cañada-Blanch Lecture. Dr. Lewis Dijkstra and LSE Professor Vernon Henderson will discuss about the emerging global definition of urbanisation. What can we ...

NITI Aayog is preparing a framework for reviewing city boundaries, considering economic indicators and land use as the key redefinition criteria. This is welcome. Our definition of urbanisation is ...

The existing framework is no longer adequate. Redefining what is urban will have far-reaching implications. Notwithstanding the culinary and cultural impact of McDonald’s across India’s large cities, ...