Sustainable development of megacities of tomorrow: green infrastructures for Casablanca, Morocco.

Casablanca The Grand Casablanca region consists of the core city of Casablanca (Prefecture Casablanca), the provinces Nouaceur and Mediouna, and the prefecture Mohammedia. It is the largest urbanised region in the Kingdom of Morocco, with 3.6 million inhabitants (according to the official 2004 census), representing 12.1 per cent of the country’s total population. Unofficial estimates are now as high as 6 million inhabitants, due to numerous informal settlements and recent migration flows. The population of the region is very young; one third of the inhabitants are younger than 15 years. In 2008, the Human Development Index (HDI) ranked Morocco 127th out of 179 countries.