After my post two days ago about urbanization—i.e., the general desire to make big cities even bigger—I ended up in a Twitter conversation with David Schleicher that started getting into the ...

4. Views of problems facing urban, suburban and rural communities. 5. Americans’ satisfaction with and attachment to their communities. 6. How urban, suburban and rural residents interact with their ...

Some 200,000 people move into cities across the globe each and every day. Over the course of the next century, that figure will add up to billions. Mayors, urban leaders and economists are ...

The party is hardly doing this now, particularly at the center-city level. Only 12 of the 51 largest U.S. cities have Republican mayors, and only 5 of those cities--Phoenix, Oklahoma City, Fort ...

How Urbanization Causes Respiratory Problems • Urban activities, such as combustion, industrial activities, mining, and drilling lead to higher levels of toxic Industrial and Vehicular Emissions.

Rapid urbanization in Africa is creating new challenges, with the United Nations predicting the world's 10 fastest-growing cities will be on the continent.

Rats are a disturbing urban problem, but hardly a new one — I have written four articles about rats in the past 14 years, including one about a block on the Upper West Side that put up “rat ...

The main entrance of Tatu city is seen in Nairobi, Kenya, Oct. 25, 2024. Tatu City hopes to address Africa’s urbanization conundrum: While the growth of cities has rolled back poverty elsewhere ...

Trump’s rhetoric about “inner cities” and “blighted communities” is suffused with a long history of racial and ethnic prejudice. It also ignores that crime is not just an urban problem ...

Every wasted minute circling a block adds up. It costs drivers time, money, and patience. It increases fuel use and air ...