Weather extremes, such as heatwaves and torrential rainfalls, are becoming more frequent and more intense across the United States under climate change. In late September of this year, flash-flooding ...

Amid the backdrop of rapid global economic expansion and increasing population, the sustainable utilization of land resources ...

Urbanization is the defining global phenomenon of this century. For the first time in history, more than half the world’s population lives in urban areas. Between 2000 and 2030, in developing ...

A University of Wyoming researcher was part of a recent study that investigated how changes in urban land and population will affect future populations’ exposure to weather extremes at the end of the ...

For instance, satellite observations help us understand the impact of extreme heatwave on population exposure and aid in the development of urban flood monitoring algorithms. Real-time data ...

Neil G Sipe has received funding from the Australian Research Council. Infill development is an increasingly hot topic in Australian cities. It involves building on unused or underutilised land within ...

Eugenie L. Birch is Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education at the Penn Institute for Urban Research at the University of Pennsylvania, and President of the General Assembly of ...

Mixed Land Use Urban Planning is a modern approach to city development that blends residential, commercial, cultural, and ...

The city of Gondar, one of 117 Ethiopian cities that benefited from the World Bank’s Ethiopia Urban Institutional and Infrastructure Development Program (UIIDP). Photo: Adobe Stock With World Bank ...