The age of urbanisation

As Union urban development minister Kamal Nath's call this week for vertical development in New Delhi - to deal with growing population pressure - underscored, this is an urban century. By 2030, UN forecasts estimate that more than 70% of the world population will be urbanised. India itself is facing an unprecedented scale of urbanisation with 700 million people likely to move to cities by 2050.

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