Urban Governance in Developing Countries: Experiences and Challenges

Abstract

To begin to comprehend the massive changes taking place in cities of the developing world, we need to start with some large demographic numbers. As the world moves inexorably toward the day when the majority of humankind will be living in urban areas (which will be some time during 2007, we are told by the United Nations), the fastest and most breathtaking population increases are taking place in the developing world: in Latin America, in Africa, and in Asia. Indeed, during 2000–2030, almost all the projected aggregate growth of the world’s total population will be absorbed by cities of the less developed regions (United Nations 2004).

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