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Why Cities Rise Fast And Falls Faster
Combined challenge of climate change and population growth puts premium on rapid urbanisation ‘in a way that’s not…
The Truth Behind The Gender Wage Gap In The U.S.
“The gender wage gap is complicated. Most people have heard that women make, on average, 77¢ for every…
Land Of Midnight Traffic Jams. More Fun? More Like Hell On Earth.
Metro Manila, on an urban level, was named as having the “worst traffic on Earth,” based on a…
Why Greenland’s People Will Pioneer A New Way Of Life
Greenland’s hunters are facing a threat to centuries of tradition. Albert Lukassen’s world is melting around him. When…
Migrants Are The Key Source Of Vitality For Cities, Plan Well
The world’s population is becoming increasingly urban. Sometime in 2007 is usually reckoned to be the turning point…
Top 10 Economic Cities and How They Got There
These cities have thriving local economies, low unemployment and good job growth – and that’s not by accident.…
Top 10 Countries For Retail Development & Expansion
Global consulting firm A.T. Kearney released its annual Global Retail Development Index (GRDI) and there has been some…
The Top 10 Counties Where People Are Moving
Migration rates are near historic lows, but some places are still attracting large numbers of new residents. View…
10 Nations That May Go Extinct By 2115
It can often seem as though nations are permanent fixtures on the landscape, immovable, unchangeable, and enduring. If…
The 10 Best Emerging Markets For Retail
Neither turmoil in the global markets nor geopolitical tensions can hold retailers down. Through a dramatic dip in…
10 Best Cities For Young Entrepreneurs
NerdWallet tallied the top metro areas by population to determine this (surprising!) list of the best cities for…
The Hard Work Of Pope Francis’ Balancing Act
On his first visit to the United States, as well as addressing a joint session of Congress, Pope…
Before California’s Birthday, The Earth Shaped It First
With the discovery of gold in 1848, thousands of prospectors poured into California. When it came time to…
The Top 10 Cities Of The Future
If you think about it, human settlements tend to have their own gravitational pull. Like stars and planets…
Why Millennials Will Soon Leave The Cities They Remade
Officials in several cities transformed by young adults try to predict their next move. For years, millennials have…
A Mysterious Law That Predicts The Size Of The World’s Biggest Cities
For the past century, an obscure mathematical principle called Zipf’s law has predicted the size of mega-cities all…
How To Raise Awareness About Population Explosion
How do you raise awareness about population explosion? One group thought that the simplest way would be to…
How Boomers Will Shape The Future Of Our Cities
The principal of CannonDesign predicts that his generation will be active participants in making our urban environments healthier.…
The Mind Of The City For The Future Of The City
Imagine, says Alberto Hernando de Castro, you are moving to a city. Maybe it’s New York, where hundreds…
Megacities Might Not Save The Planet After All
YOU LEARN TO put up with a lot when you live in Mexico State. The electricity is always…
Are tiny homes the next big thing for cities?
As urban populations swell, as the number of singles increases — and as city officials try to make…
Cities Save The Earth From Humanity
Can humans grow enough food, produce enough energy and still preserve some of the last refuges of other…
What Happens When All Our Cemeteries Are Full?
The business of death has become highly lucrative as the cost of dying rises in cities across the…
Can A City Become Too Big?
The number of megacities has been increasing so rapidly in the last few decades that many are experiencing…
London’s Booming : The City’s Surging Population
The capital’s growth – the number of residents is rising towards 10 million and beyond – is a…
What If The Entire World Lived In 1 City?
Two Yale architects pose the question in an ambitious research project. It’s difficult to think about global urbanisation…
Geoffrey West: The Surprising Math Of Cities And Corporations
Physicist Geoffrey West has found that simple, mathematical laws govern the properties of cities — that wealth, crime…
Should The World Plan For Fewer (Not More) People?
Current UN projections show that there will be 11 billion people living on Earth by the end of…
Infographics : East Asia’s Massive Urban Growth
If everyone who recently migrated to cities in the region were a country unto themselves, it would be…
See The World Cities Explode In Size
The new Atlas of Urban Expansion maps out the past so cities can prepare for the future. By…
Africa and Asia and the Urban Population Boom
The UN predicts that two-thirds of the world will live in cities by 2050, with 90% of growth…