Gordon McGranahan

Gordon McGranahan is a former principal researcher in IIED's Human Settlements research group; team leader, urbanisation. He left IIED in 2016.

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Insights

Houses next to a canal.

Burgeoning growth of deltaic cities puts lives and livelihoods at risk

Insight, 09 October 2023

A street in Freetown, Sierra Leone: involving growing low-income urban populations in urbanising countries will help result in more inclusive urbanisation (Photo: bobthemagicdragon, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

In the world's poorest countries, cities could be the Sustainable Development Goals test

Insight, 07 June 2016

The Bairro Proletário do Dique in Rio de Janeiro was settled in the 1960s. The local infrastructure remains poor (Photo: Mariana Gil/EMBARQ Brasil, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Is more inclusive urbanisation essential to the 2030 Agenda?

Insight, 02 March 2016

Brazil's favelas are a legacy of a more passive resistance reflecting an unwillingness to plan for anticipated population growth (Photo: Chris Jones, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Exploring inclusive urbanisation and other migration crises

Insight, 28 October 2015

The lives of Vasanthi and Gopal have been transformed by the low-cost toilet provided as part of the Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project (Photo: Asian Development Bank, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Why sanitation, spearhead of urban improvement in the 19th century, has become the laggard of the 21st

Insight, 04 March 2015

Our new interactive visualisation plots countries’ incomes per capita against their levels of urbanisation

Let's see what the BRICS teach us about urbanisation and economic growth

Insight, 16 September 2014

Publications

10812IIED.pdf

Universalising water and sanitation coverage in urban areas: From global targets to local realities in Dar es Salaam, and back

01 December 2016

10772IIED.pdf

Inclusive Urbanisation Workshop Reflections

01 February 2016

10752IIED.pdf

Public and private control and contestation of public space amid violent conflict in Karachi

01 November 2015

Urbanization

01 April 2015

10725IIED.pdf

Urbanisation, rural–urban migration and urban poverty

01 March 2015

10722IIED.pdf

Urban informality and building a more inclusive, resilient and green economy

01 December 2014

10709IIED.pdf

Urbanisation Concepts and Trends

01 June 2014

10631IIED.pdf

Housing density and housing preference in Bangkok's low-income settlements

01 September 2013

G03615.pdf

Community-driven sanitation improvement in deprived neighbourhoods

01 June 2013

X00135.pdf

Integrating the environment in urban planning and management: key principles and approaches for cities in the 21st century

01 January 2013

G03455.pdf

Learning from urbanization in the BRICS

01 December 2012

10622IIED.pdf

Urbanization and Development: Policy lessons from the BRICS experience

01 December 2012

X00097.pdf

The legacy of inequality and negligence in Brazil's unfinished urban transition: lessons for other developing regions

01 November 2012

Evolving urban health risks: Housing, water and sanitation, and climate change

01 July 2012

G03114.pdf

UNFPA Technical Briefing: Urbanization and food prices

01 May 2011

10584IIED.pdf

Groundwater, self-supply and poor urban dwellers: A review with case studies of Bangalore and Lusaka

01 November 2010