A new study analyzing more than 100 cities across Asia, Africa, and Latin America has quantified the stark consequences of ...

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This chart shows the average density of urban areas of populations of 500,000+ people, by country (in population per square ...

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Fifteen years ago, the global population was almost evenly divided between urban and rural dwellers. In 2022, according to World Bank figures, almost a billion more people live in cities and towns ...

A study of para-urbanisation, residential sprawl occurring in the urban-rural fringe of Polish cities, revealed an interesting pattern of unplanned development which was a consequence of the political ...

Urban growth boundaries are created by governments in an effort to concentrate urban development -- buildings, roads and the utilities that support them -- within a defined area. These boundaries are ...

To the editor: There are two major fallacies in Joel Kotkin’s argument that low-density sprawl might explain the lower impact of COVID-19 in Southern California compared to New York. First, density ...

“It’s time the federal government stopped encouraging sprawl,” Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan declared this morning before the Congress for the New Urbanism. “It’s time ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The Southeastern Michigan Council of Governments reported last week that urban sprawl has claimed ...