The rapid development of urbanization has led to significant achievements in urban construction, particularly in terms of economic growth and social progress resulting from transforming suburban areas ...

While research on land use efficiency (LUE) - defined as the added value of secondary and tertiary industries per unit of urban land - has advanced considerably, systematic understanding of its ...

Infill development is an increasingly hot topic in Australian cities. It involves building on unused or underutilised land within existing urban areas. City planners see infill development as ...

Urbanization is the defining global phenomenon of this century. For the first time in history, more than half the world’s population lives in urban areas. Between 2000 and 2030, in developing ...

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 ...

For as long as cities have existed, accessibility has shaped the value of land. This principle is not disappearing, but it is being revised. The digital economy has ...

Eugenie L. Birch is Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education at the Penn Institute for Urban Research at the University of Pennsylvania, and President of the General Assembly of ...

A University of Wyoming researcher was part of a recent study that investigated how changes in urban land and population will affect future populations’ exposure to weather extremes at the end of the ...

The city of Gondar, one of 117 Ethiopian cities that benefited from the World Bank’s Ethiopia Urban Institutional and Infrastructure Development Program (UIIDP). Photo: Adobe Stock With World Bank ...

Researchers have investigated how changes in urban land and population will affect future populations' exposures to weather extremes under climate conditions at the end of the 21st century. They used ...