Marielle Dubbeling, Marcia Caton Campbell, Femke Hoekstra, René van Veenhuizen

In: UA Magazine no. 22 - Building Resilient Cities pp. 3-11

Urban growth is projected to increase significantly in the coming decades. The world’s urban population
is expected to double from 3.3 billion in 2007 to 6.4 billion by 2050, and it is predicted that by 2030, 60 per cent of the world’s population will live in cities. Accompanying this urbanisation process is a phenomenon referred to as the “urbanisation of poverty”. Ravallion (2007) estimates that about one-quarter of the developing world’s poor live in urban areas, and this percentage is expected to increase to 50 per cent by 2035.