Urbanisation

People move into cities to seek opportunities. In modern societies citizens are moving to find improved job conditions and housing. Other factors include a greater variety of entertainment and a better quality of education, namely universities. In less developed countries people are looking for a life with better jobs and health opportunities.

Cities of opportunities

The city is the place where the great advances occur – intellectual, technological and also organisational. You need urbanisation if you’re going to get development. Urbanisation is a basic precondition for development. But it doesn’t of itself guarantee development.

The urban world is no longer one of clearly defined cities, constituting unique entities. As you read this, new networks of towns are taking shape. Managing urban growth so that it contributes positively to economic advance, reconciling it with ecologically climate sustainable forms of development and reducing social exclusion, currently represents a key societal challenge around the world.

New urban settings

With in-depth knowledge and expertise engineers and consultants around the world are involved in establishing these new urban settings. Large-scale projects of record-breaking dimensions, advances in green tech design, industrialisation of building processes, new tools in project management.

In Ramboll we take part in the urban development through a variety of services. Improving infrastructure in India, establishing telecommunication in Africa, helping Copenhagen become the first CO2 neutral capital in the world, and creating waste-to-energy plants all over the world are just a few examples of our urban solutions. We deliver holistic urban planning allowing cities to flourish with state-of-the-art technology, cultural settings and socially sustainable urban growth.