Cities need clear limits and targets on urban sprawl to understand whether planning tools like greenbelts and denser ...

Beneath the rising sun, people from nearby Indigenous communities navigate across the Vaupés River in traditional wooden canoes toward Mitú, a rapidly expanding town in the Colombian Amazon. The ...

Robert Harding Pittman, “Dubai, UAE” (2009) (all photos courtesy the artist and Spot Photo Works) LOS ANGELES — The list of ways the US has negatively influenced the rest of the world is long and ...

Urban sprawl is not just unsightly. It could also be impeding intergenerational mobility for low-income residents and reinforcing racial inequality, according to a series of recent studies led by a ...

Editor's note: This is the last in a three-part series on Northwest Arkansas' attempts to avoid urban sprawl. The Northwest Arkansas Council predicts 1 million people will live in Washington, Benton ...

Editor's note: This is the second in a three-part series on Northwest Arkansas' attempts to avoid urban sprawl. Northwest Arkansas' elected officials, developers and business leaders have tried to ...

A new study reveals that encroachments, deforestation, and urban expansion have severely damaged the Aravalli ranges, ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A new study maps temperature differences from neighborhood to neighborhood in 65 cities. A new study maps ...

Cities are expanding all over the world, but the mechanisms governing this growth remain poorly understood. In a study published in Physical Review Letters, Marc Barthelemy, from the Institute of ...

Numbers may tell the stories of cities in growth or decline, but they're not as appealing as some of the works in "Sprawl." Two artists, in particular, depict big urban issues with poetic approaches ...

This report is the second in a two-part series on Indian's urban heat crisis, published by IndiaSpend. Read the first ...