As Toronto hurtles towards its population dense future, the making of significant green communities for its waterfront needs to be urgently considered.
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Urban growth and landscape transformations in York region: How Vaughan and Markham are exploding.
The development of suburban infrastructure depends on political, technical and financial priorities. A train derailment in an Italian suburb has highlighted the need to retrofit infrastructure.
Google’s proposals for a high-tech development on Toronto’s lakefront is a radical departure from the principles that have guided city planning in Canada for decades.
The future of Sydney is under constant scrutiny. But before we consider creating a ‘third city’ in Sydney’s west, we should ensure we get the current infrastructure up to international standards.
Heavy rains, poor and clogged drainage systems have made many towns and cities in Nigeria susceptible to massive flooding.
Twenty years ago, a sheriff won a lawsuit against a federal gun control law. Today, San Francisco is betting the same argument for state’s rights will stop Trump from defunding sanctuary cities.
More and more people are talking about the ‘rural-urban divide,’ but what does that phrase actually mean? We asked experts from around the country to illustrate the gap in graphs and maps.
Nine out of 10 rural places experienced increases in diversity from 1990 to 2010. Data show a more diverse future is guaranteed across all of America, and there’s no going back.
When villages across Spain, Portugal and Italy are abandoned, the regions’ unique culture and heritage is lost, too.
Turns out, the way we see ethnic diversity may have more to do with prejudice than facts.
Social media is notoriously unsuitable for population studies, but these researchers have found a way to make the bias work in their favour.
The city of light has found a way to draw on the resources of the private sector, while looking after the interests of its citizens.
The mechanisms are there - but where’s the evidence?
Everyone has experienced it. Striding along in a purposeful hurry, your progress is thwarted by a slow-moving pedestrian, dawdling along the pavement. Perhaps they’re talking into their mobile phone, looking…
A new form of research is needed to bring us the cities of the future.
Mesa, Arizona: a place with wide streets and narrow minds. Or so goes a once popular saying about this traditionally laid-back, conservative community that came into official existence in 1883 as a Mormon…
The strength of Australia’s economy depends on how well our cities function - yet right now, it’s as if we’re driving with the handbrake on. Cities are crucial to productivity. When they work well, they…
The national debate about Australia’s population has been hijacked. It has been dominated by fears that we don’t have the infrastructure to cope with an influx of people, and differing views about migrants…
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University of Manchester
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Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography, Penn State
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Associate Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California
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University of Manchester
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Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy, Occidental College
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PhD Candidate in Urban Planning, Design and Policy | Urban welfare researcher, York University, Canada
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Professor of Biomechanics, University of Hull
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Senior Research Fellow Morrison Institute For Public Policy, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Arizona State University
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Fellow, Grattan Institute
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Director of COMPAS, University of Oxford
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Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering, UCL
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Fellow, Infrastructure Institute, School of Cities, University of Toronto
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Professor of River Science and Climate Resilience, University of Salford
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Honorary Research Fellow in Hydromorphology, University of Salford
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Senior Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
