Nepal’s capital city was devastated by the 2015 earthquake, but rebuilding heritage sites has been fraught with difficulties.
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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.
As Toronto hurtles towards its population dense future, the making of significant green communities for its waterfront needs to be urgently considered.
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.
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Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupation Health, University of California, Irvine; University of Southern California
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Professor, Environmental Studies Program at UC Santa Barbara
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Professeur titulaire, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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University of Manchester
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Associate Professor and Principal Fellow in Urban Risk and Resilience, The University of Melbourne
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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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Professeur agrégé, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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Research Officer, African Population and Health Research Center
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Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Boise State University; United Nations University
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Lecturer, Management Discipline Group, University of Technology Sydney
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Reader, Anglia Ruskin University
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Director of the Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), United Nations University
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Professor Spatial Transformation, Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen