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Bookmark or Share- Urban Development Overview - World Bank GroupThe expansion of urban land consumption outpaces population growth by as much as 50%, which is expected to add 1.2 million km² of new urban built-up area to the world by 2030. Such sprawl puts pressure on land and natural resources, resulting in undesirable outcomes; cities represent two-thirds of global energy consumption and account for more ...
- Land - World Bank GroupRegularizing urban land rights in Tanzania and Pakistan. Impact evaluations on women’s land rights in Senegal, Mozambique and Tanzania that will strengthen the knowledge base on how to improve women’s land rights across all countries and regions.
- World Bank Land Conference 2025The World Bank Land Conference has catalyzed the global land community for over 20 years. The Conference is the premier global forum for the land sector, bringing together over 1,000 participants from governments, development partners, civil society, academia, and the private sector to showcase policy-relevant research, discuss technical issues and sector good practice, and inform our dialogue.
- East Asia’s Changing Urban Landscape: Measuring a Decade of Spatial GrowthThe rate at which urban areas expanded physically varied widely between countries. Mostly rural countries had the highest spatial expansion rates, with Lao PDR at 7.3 percent and Cambodia at 4.3 percent, while industrialized Japan had the lowest rate of increase at 0.4 percent despite containing the second-largest amount of urban land behind China.
- How Eight Cities Succeeded in Rejuvenating their Urban LandRegenerating Urban Land: A Practitioner’s Guide to Leveraging Private Investment looks at regeneration programs from eight cities around the world – Ahmedabad, Buenos Aires, Johannesburg, Santiago, Singapore, Seoul, Shanghai, and Washington DC – documenting the journeys they have faced in tackling major challenges in this area.
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