Urbanization plays a crucial role in the economic development of every country. The mutual relationship between the urbanization of any country and its economic productive structure is far from being ...

“Location, location, location,” has long been a real estate mantra. Once a property has been identified in a market with enough growth and demand, the next step is entitlement and permitting.

Even before entering the entitlement and permitting process, there is a lot of work to create new housing. What follows is a brief sketch of the development process in the United States. In general, ...

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

Whether the process of urbanization is harnessed and managed, or allowed to fuel growing divides, will largely determine the future of inequality, says UN DESA’s World Social Report 2020. For the ...

COVID-19 brought the relation between humans and animals to the core of social and scientific debates. COVID-19 is a zoonotic disease: the coronavirus that causes it crossed species boundaries from ...