'I'm panicking': Seoul rips out its manufacturing heart
The next 15 megacities #15: The fast-growing South Korean capital is about to wipe out Euljiro, a neighbourhood home to 10,000 shops and 50,000 tradespeople that was integral to the country’s postwar boom
'We have to learn to live with floods': waterlogged Surat to become latest megacity
The next 15 megacities #14: Surat’s battle to hold back water has raged since its first flood wall in 1664. Asits population soars towards 10 million, the ‘diamond city’ needs new solutions
Inside Chengdu: can China's megacity version of the garden city work?
The next 15 megacities #13: Chengdu is arguably China’s most liveable burgeoning megacity, following in the footsteps of England’s garden city movement – but on an epic scale
Tollywood confidential: inside the world's biggest film city
The next 15 megacities #11: As Hyderabad heads towards megacity status, its film industry is going from strength to strength. Its secret? Cutting-edge VFX and filming in multiple languages
Inside China's leading 'sponge city': Wuhan's war with water
The next 15 megacities #9: Known as ‘the city of a hundred lakes’ until most got paved over, Wuhan has a flooding problem. Can permeable pavements and artificial wetlands soak it up?
‘Redefine the skyline’: how Ho Chi Minh City is erasing its heritage
The next 15 megacities #7: More than a third of the Vietnamese city’s historic buildings have been destroyed over the past 20 years. Can it learn from mistakes made by other fast-growing Asian cities before it is too late?
China's Muslims fear crackdown in ancient city of Xi'an
The next 15 megacities #5: Tourist flock to the city’s ancient Muslim area – but reports from elsewhere in China of crackdowns and re-education camps are setting nerves on edge
'Like LA with minarets': how concrete and cars came to rule Tehran
The next 15 megacities #3: With nearly 10 million people doing daily battle with some of the world’s highest levels of congestion and air pollution, headscarves should be the least of the authorities’ worries …
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?
