The Urban Strategy ... What is a City, a course which brings together changemakers from the city and region to give an inside look at what it takes to lead. And students are trained for in-demand ...

As the world's largest multilateral financier of urban development, the World Bank works with national and local governments to build more livable, sustainable, and inclusive cities and communities.

Accurate, high-temporal-resolution population data are critical for urban planning and emergency response as cities grow.

In urban planning, competing interests—such as creating more space for housing while preserving biodiversity—often have to be ...

GIS is a powerful tool for linking together data from various sources and at different spatial scales in investigating the relationships between place and health. The Urban Health Collaborative offers ...

The chairman of the London County Council described his city as "a tumour, an elephantiasis sucking into its gorged system half the life and the blood and the bone of the rural districts." ...

the social inclusion of the urban poor and women, as well as to the greening of the city and the productive reuse of urban wastes. While there is a growing awareness about the role of urban ...

Keith Urban Says Grief Has Been 'Up and Down' Since Wife Nicole Kidman's Mom's Death: 'It Comes in Waves' Nicole Kidman Celebrates Keith Urban's Birthday at Luke Combs and Eric Church’s Benefit ...

A detailed focus on Mumbai brings its urban growth into perspective with global trends to reframe how one of India’s largest and most dynamic cities is understood.

serves the McDonough County GIS Consortium: a partnership between the City of Macomb, McDonough County and Western Illinois University. Housed on the fifth floor of Currens Hall on the WIU campus, the ...

The Electric City is, in many ways, the crucible of patterns of production, consumption and pollution of the 21st century ‘urban age’ as cities struggle with their impact on the social and ...

Archaeologists excavating Harrapa, the Indus Valley city in present-day Pakistan, have discovered grid streets running east to west and north to south that date to almost 5,000 years ago. Today, urban ...