Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. After my post two days ago about urbanization—i.e., the general desire to make big ...

America’s large cities are now retaining residents who previously would have moved to the suburbs, reports the Wall Street Journal. U.S. cities that for years lost residents to the suburbs are holding ...

In the first-ever study on the characteristics of urbanization in large cities around the world, researchers at the University of Hong Kong analyzed cities' urban built-up areas (BUAs) expansion, ...

Around 8:30am on January 18, a small clutch of parents wearing thick coats, scarves and gloves were milling around the entrance to West Philadelphia’s Penn Alexander School, eyeing each other warily.

Since 2008, the Arbor Day Foundation has awarded the designation “Tree Campus USA” to educational institutions that meet standards somewhat similar to those that define the more familiar “Tree City ...

As cities physically expanded worldwide between 1970 and 2010, the population in those cities became less dense, according to a new study. As cities physically expanded worldwide between 1970 and 2010 ...

Today, the world’s urban population grew by close to 200,000 people. It will do the same tomorrow, and the next day, and so on into the future. Two-thirds of humanity will live in cities by 2050. We ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Urbanization exposes wildlife to unfamiliar environments, including novel structures and food sources. Adapting to such anthropogenic ...