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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.
In Iowa, almost 40 percent of residents can’t afford the basic cost of living. That was the setting for the 2018 midterm elections, where rural voters are suffering along with their communities.
Today, 8 out of every 10 Americans live in a city or suburb.
Top contributors
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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
