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 ...

Urbanization, income inequality and health expenditures are important factors of life expectancy. Urbanization and income inequalities are avoidable occurrences to tackle the health penalties. The ...

Under the influence of the global digital wave, problems such as resource misallocation and shortage of social services exposed in the traditional urbanization process can find new solutions under the ...

Cities are physical environments—they are social settings, economic phenomena, and political arenas. An understanding of these complex social structures can come only from an analysis that transcends ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Flooding is the natural hazard with the greatest economic and social impact in the ...

Cities are dynamic, not static grids, and urbanization is a "spiky," cyclical, and asynchronous process.

KIAMBU, Kenya — Turn into Tatu City on the outskirts of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, and it feels like entering a different world. Even the country’s most reckless drivers are transformed, slowing to a ...