The deadly heat waves in back-to-back summers have left people throughout the U.S. and Europe desperate for relief. It's urban centers that have felt the intense temperatures the most — and where ...

From offsetting higher temperatures as cities heat up and cultivating healthier communities, to contributing to local ...

Rossbach is United Nations Under-Secretary-General and the Executive Director of UN-Habitat Today, more than half the world’s population lives in cities—a figure expected to grow by 2.4 billion by ...

In a recent study published in Nature, researchers assessed the impact of urban living on the development and growth of children. The maturation and progress of children and adolescents in school are ...

Houston’s urban area, which Rice researcher Stephen Klineberg has long referred to as the “blob that ate east Texas,” is about to gobble its way across an important boundary, opening up the ...

City soil provides food production, temperature control and water filtration that makes urban areas healthier places to live.

More than 1,100 cities, towns and villages in the U.S. lost their status as urban areas on Thursday as the U.S. Census Bureau released a new list of places considered urban based on revised criteria.

Urban areas may be at greater risk for precipitation-triggered landslides than rural areas, according to a new study that could help improve landslide predictions and hazard and risk assessments.

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Urban enumeration form collection for voter registration is significantly lower than in rural areas, according to Election ...