Explore the relationship between industrialization and urbanization, and learn how job creation and manufacturing drive city growth and economic opportunity.
Urbanization in Africa is accelerating quickly, showing no signs of slowing down. An international team of researchers addresses critical gaps in our understanding of how this urbanization affects ...
An international group of leading scientists call for an urgent change in the governance of urban expansion as the world's cities continue to grow at unprecedented rates. From the impacts on the ...
The Government of Sri Lanka has launched an ambitious program of economic and physical regeneration for Metropolitan Colombo. Image © Joe Qian/World Bank South Asia ...
Air pollution. Traffic. Animals dying. Habitat loss. All of these issues are side effects of urbanization, according to the United Nations. But, with a new rewilding solution that is being tested in ...
Big Cities Disrupt the Atmosphere, Often Generating More Rainfall, But Can Also Have a Drying Effect
The world’s largest urban areas have an outsized influence on regional weather and climate patterns, often creating “wet islands,” with more rainfall over cities and adjacent downwind areas, according ...
Ian A. Wright has received funding from local state and Australian Government and the water industry. He previously worked for Sydney Water and Sydney Catchment Authority. The growth of cities ...
The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. The urban renewal project of the 1960s, which disproportionately displaced Black ...
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