Middle East and North Africa

New forms of urban planning are emerging in Africa

Rapid urban growth and an increasing number of climate change related disasters, such as the recent floods in South Africa’s…

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The tiny emirate of Dubai has emerged as the world’s leading haven from Covid for business and investment.

By John Arlidge

The opportunity to develop a sustainable, human-centric city from scratch is not one that’s afforded to many parts of the…

By Nikki Peach

The fastest-growing cities in the world, according to the UN, are Delhi, Shanghai, Dhaka, Kinshasa, Chongqing, Lahore, Bangalore, Lagos, Cairo…

By Richard Gardham

Climate change is magnifying threats such as flooding, wildfires, tropical storms and drought. In 2020 the US experienced a record-breaking…

By John Rennie Short

Hotel and shopping mall group Majid Al Futtaim will use the proceeds from its new $1.5bn sustainability-linked loan to target…

By Adrian Murdoch

Dubai’s RoboCafe has introduced robots in place of their human overloads.

By City Monitor Staff

FDI into the Egyptian capital of Cairo has never fully recovered from the knock it took in the Arab Spring…

By Sebastian Shehadi