Neighborhood characteristics like pollution from busy roads, widespread public transit use and lack of community-based health care are putting certain communities at greater risk from COVID-19.
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Rebuilding cities post-pandemic will start with neighbourhood hope, and strong social and community planning.
We can lock in these changes to build sustainable cities out of the coronavirus crisis – here’s how.
For most of the past five decades, income inequality has been higher in rural counties than in urban areas. Now, urban areas are catching up.
Densely populated urban areas are great drivers of economic development and innovation, but that also makes them a fertile ground for the spread of pandemics.
Hundreds of Canadian municipalities have declared climate emergencies but many have yet to take action.
When mapping deprivation, using traditional boundaries can distort the data and distract readers from important information.
The government wants more people to live in Australia’s north. So we looked at three scenarios to increase the population and the results don’t always look good for the north.
According to a new smart cities index, the real test for smart cities is whether citizens feel the benefits.
Megaproject construction has been a major response to globalization in the urban realm.
Prodded by Michelle Obama and other government leaders, Walmart and other major US retailers vowed to build hundreds of stores in food deserts. What happened?
City rankings have become big business – but this expert thinks it’s best to ignore them.
In many urban poor areas such as slums, programmes by governments and NGOs are established to help families and mitigate malnutrition. But are these effective?
Solar lights can help local governments drastically reduce their spending on electricity bills.
Nepal’s capital city was devastated by the 2015 earthquake, but rebuilding heritage sites has been fraught with difficulties.
Agriculture is well placed to provide employment for millions across the African continent.
China is funding global infrastructure projects to expand its influence and capacity for economic growth.
With so few public washrooms in our cities, vulnerable people are forced to use café and restaurant washrooms. How do mostly minimum wage café and restaurant workers deal with this?
A populist movement that threatened to topple a French government more than 60 years ago has important lessons for today’s protests and why they represent a reckoning.
Boarded up pubs are becoming a common sight, and it’s having a real impact on rural village life.
Principais colaboradores
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Professeur titulaire, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy, Occidental College
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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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Professeur agrégé, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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University of Manchester
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Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography, Penn State
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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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Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering, UCL
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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, 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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Fellow, Grattan Institute
