Urbanization exerts considerable impact on ecological, environmental and meteorological processes and systems. However, the effects of urbanization on local drought remain under-explored. Here we ...

Is the future urban? Yes, but "the city" might not be what we think it is. Neil Brenner, a professor of urban theory at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, said as much in his talk to 100 faculty ...

Cities are dynamic, not static grids, and urbanization is a "spiky," cyclical, and asynchronous process.

Africa is set to drive future global urbanization, yet the evolution of its urban systems remains underexplored. Here we show this evolution during 1950–2020 using three urban system rules based on a ...

Last month’s release of the World Cities Report 2016 marks another milestone in the lead-up to Habitat III, the U. N.’s major summit on urbanization taking place later this year. In offering extensive ...

Asian developing countries are facing numerous challenges, only two of which are urbanization and migration. While urbanization is gathering momentum in developing Asian countries, it should be noted ...

SEATTLE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Widely accepted numbers on how much of the world's population lives in cities are incorrect, with major implications for development aid and the provision of ...

More than 1,100 cities, towns and villages in the U.S. lost their status as urban areas on Thursday as the U.S. Census Bureau released a new list of places considered urban based on revised criteria.

SEATTLE, July 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Widely accepted numbers on how much of the world's population lives in cities are incorrect, with major implications for development aid and the ...