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1 day ago · City growth was high between 2007 and 2015 due in large part to the 2007–2009 Great Recession, which put a damper on the suburban housing market and allowed many cities to retain young adult ...
2 days ago · In the near future, designing the vertical city will take cues from the urban approach to community planning and integrate and create opportunities for social interaction and community engagement. There will be a thread of human experience in our cities that is all-encompassing from the street to the sky.
12 hours ago · A community science program uses iNaturalist to identify slugs and snails in Southern California. Overall, we found that most native species were more likely to be observed in natural areas around ...
3 days ago · Cities are thirsty places. But rising demand and growing environmental pressures increasingly strain urban water supplies. By 2050, half the world’s big cities will face water scarcity. Cities worldwide must develop strategies to strengthen sustainable water systems.
3 days ago · But relying on the master-planned, “Big Project'' approach to revitalization is a risky way forward. Rather than growing the city’s wealth, these big projects often require significant public investment and incentives, which put cities in the risky financial position of making large, expensive bets in the present and hoping to recoup that ...
2 days ago · A city can be defined as a conditionally contiguous urban area, without regard to territorial or other boundaries inside an urban area. UNICEF defines urban area as follows: The definition of "urban" varies from country to country, and, with periodic reclassification, can also vary within one country over time, making direct comparisons difficult.
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5 days ago · Like many old, big industrial cities, Chicago peaked in the 1950 Census with a population of 3,620,962. In the 1950s over two percent of the entire U.S. population lived within Chicago city limits. Over a half century later, while America’s population doubled, Chicago’s population declined.
