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Megacities

September 2023

  • Nesrine Malik

    Megacities in the desert: the human cost of Egypt and Saudi Arabia’s bold new projects

    Nesrine Malik
    In their rush to claim the future and concrete over the past, these vast rebrands are demolishing people’s homes and their heritage, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

December 2019

  • The BRT in Dar Es Salaam

    The illustrated city
    How do you stop a megacity grinding to a halt? A cartoon

    Until four years ago Dar Es Salaam had no public transport. Artist Popa Matumula looks at the impact a new bus system is having on the city’s legendarily bad traffic

October 2019

  • A potential scenario for Miami’s South Beach if global heating reaches 2C.

    The climate crisis in 2050: what happens if cities act but nations don't?

    It is cities, not national governments, that are most aggressively fighting the climate crisis – and in 30 years they could look radically different

June 2019

  • Tokyo

    Guardian Tokyo week
    Has Tokyo reached ‘peak city’?

    You could argue that the world’s biggest city has hit a sweet spot: a flatlining population, pervasive transit and little gentrification. But is ‘peak city’ even possible – and where does Tokyo go from here?
  • four megarivers that converge on the city: the Arakawa, Sumidagawa, Edogawa and Tamagawa

    Guardian Tokyo week
    A city built on water: the hidden rivers under Tokyo's concrete and neon

    More than 100 rivers and canals flow beneath Tokyo, but from the ground it’s hard to notice them. Why has the city turned its back on water?

    • Guardian Tokyo week
      ロボットと復興：東京2020大会は1964年の東京オリンピックを上回れるか

    • Guardian Tokyo week
      東京の転換点：日本の首都はついに開かれるのか

    • Guardian Tokyo week
      Tokyo dawn: is the impenetrable city finally opening up?

January 2019

  • The Bus Rapid Transit system in Dar es Salaam

    The next 15 megacities
    How an emerging African megacity cut commutes by two hours a day

    The next 15 megacities #2: Could Dar es Salaam’s experiment with Africa’s first ‘gold standard’ bus rapid transit system offer an alternative to a future dependent on private cars?

November 2015

  • Impresión del artista sobre el plan de desarrollo urbano de Texcoco que vería el retorno de los lagos a la Ciudad de México.

    Guardian Mexico City week
    Entrevista a Alberto Kalach: ‘Nuestros proyectos intentan crear un diálogo inteligente con la naturaleza’

  • Artist’s impression of the Texcoco urban development plan that would see lakes returned to Mexico City.

    Guardian Mexico City week
    Meet the architect who wants to return Mexico City to its ancient lakes

  • Donde la ciudad encuentra al campo: Feike de Jong caminó el perímetro completo.

    Guardian Mexico City week
    Peleas de gallos y agotamiento: el hombre que caminó el perímetro de la ciudad de México

  • The sharp divide between the boundary of Mexico City and the surrounding rural area.

    Guardian Mexico City week
    Cockfights in the edgelands: the man who walked Mexico City's perimeter

September 2015

  • Heavy Smog Envelopes Capital City Of China<br>BEIJING, CHINA - JANUARY 16: Buildings are blanketed in heavy smog on January 16, 2014 in Beijing, China. The municipal government issued a yellow smog alert Thursday morning, as smog blanketed the city with air quality readings reaching the most polluted level. PHOTOGRAPH BY Xinhua /Landov / Barcroft Media UK Office, London. T +44 845 370 2233 W www.barcroftmedia.com USA Office, New York City. T +1 212 796 2458 W www.barcroftusa.com Indian Office, Delhi. T +91 11 4053 2429 W www.barcroftindia.com

    The heat is on to ensure sustainable development in Asia's swelling cities

    Julian Hunt and Yuguo Li
    With growth in Asia driving up greenhouse gas emissions, the development agenda must take an integrated approach to urban crises and climate change

March 2014

  • IPCC in Yokohama : Climate change and floods in Manila, Philippines

    'We expect catastrophe' – Manila, the megacity on the climate frontline

    IPCC report warns life in the Filipino capital and other coastal cities will get much worse in many ways as temperatures rise

February 2014

  • Cities: C40 1, tau

    Mayors' C40 summit gives megacity leaders a chance to grab global spotlight

    'Boss' Bloomberg headlines Johannesburg gathering of world civic leaders to discuss climate change

February 2013

  • Seoul, South Korea shot from the air

    Megacity travel guides
    Walking Seoul: a revealing stroll around South Korea's megacity

    In South Korea's thriving capital, Jennifer Cox discovers the roar of technology and Gangnam-style shopping, but also sense of and reverence for nature

  • seoul neon

    Megacity travel guides
    Seoul: life in the megacity – in pictures

    Mike Beech is a photographer, videographer and part-time Korean language student at Sogang University in Seoul. His photographs capture the intensity of this 24-hour city, home to half of South Korea's population, but also its quieter moments

  • Trail Shanghai megacity: Shanghai street scene

    Megacity travel guides
    Shanghai: life in the megacity – in pictures

    Luca Isola, an Italian, moved to Shanghai in 2004, and now calls the megacity of 25 million people home. His photographs document the city's daily life, capturing the everyday as well as the extraordinary

January 2013

  • Marcel Theroux in Tokyo

    Megacity travel guides
    Walking Tokyo: from Mount Takao to the megacity

    Our new weekly series kicks off in the biggest city of all, with Marcel Theroux taking a 40-mile walk across Tokyo, revelling in its mix of modernity and tradition, and meeting some of its 30 million residents

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