Urbanization has already started to neutralize the impact of previous investments and efforts to meet the MDGs. Urban areas in developing countries will house 87% of population growth by 2015 and 95% by 2030. Urbanization in developing countries is increasingly dominated by settlements of less than 500,000 people and in non-regional/district capitals. Less than 15% live in cities over 5 million. The rate of slum formation is almost the same as the rate of urban growth ...