While there is room for greater urbanization, the pattern of the country's urban development has shifted to one focusing on ...
As China continues to boom in the coming decades, it would be well advised to think big. Big cities, that is. So far the migration from rural areas that has driven China's growth has fed the rise of ...
Faced with the rapid growth of cities and a surge in urban population driven mainly by the influx of migrants from rural areas, experts have called for the country to adopt a more focused pattern of ...
Joan Clos is Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) and Secretary-General of the Habitat III Conference. December 2015, No. 3 Vol. LII, Sustainable Energy We ...
Weather extremes, such as heatwaves and torrential rainfalls, are becoming more frequent and more intense across the United States under climate change. In late September of this year, flash-flooding ...
Image: Shutterstock Urbanization and COVID-19 More and more people have been moving to cities in recent decades. United Nations predictions find that, while 55 percent of the world’s population ...
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The findings have revealed fortified cities and common urban pattern characterized by casemate walls, houses abutting the walls and peripheral roads. In recent archaeological excavations in the Judea ...