Data summaries
A World Bank initiating report, ‘Building Sustainability in an Urbanizing World’ (2013), provides the starting point for the 101 largest cities. Starting with this list of cities, University of Ontario Institute of Technology researchers projected global urbanization rates and population growth in the world’s 101 largest urban areas to 2100.
This list of cities forms the skeleton to which additional information such as GHG emissions, energy use and mix and local economic development, is now being added. In partnership with other organizations, including the University of Toronto (Civil Engineering), World Bank, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Engineering), World Business Council for Sustainable Development, American Society of Civil Engineers and GDF Suez, city data is regularly iterated and improved.
The Jeffery Boyce Research Program at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) invites all partners, especially the cities themselves, to help with collecting, refining and better understanding information on the world’s largest cities.
Large urban area compendium entries for the World's 101 largest cities are provided here in alphabetical order.
