As cities struggle to build housing fast enough, planners are revisiting a bold idea: starting from scratch.

Cities need clear limits and targets on urban sprawl to understand whether planning tools like greenbelts and denser ...

With the city far from bursting at the seams, the draft policy aims to identify areas ripe for small-scale, infill ...

Ever since Mitú was first established as a settlement in 1935, it has rapidly transformed into an expanding urban town in one of Colombia’s most isolated departments. The Amazonian forests, rivers and ...

As the Las Vegas Valley runs out of land to develop on, a growing chorus of real estate developers and stakeholders say the region should consider building up more instead of out. Building more ...

A new study analyzing more than 100 cities across Asia, Africa, and Latin America has quantified the stark consequences of urban sprawl on water and sanitation access, finding that how cities grow ...

In the visualization, we see over 100 cities in the Global South and their sparseness, a measure of how the population is distributed across the cities, as well as access to clean water and water ...

Google is integrating its Gemini artificial intelligence assistant into the Maps navigation app. Drivers can access new Gemini features through voice commands on the Google Maps app. Google Maps, the ...

Cities are expanding all over the world, but the mechanisms governing this growth remain poorly understood. In a study published in Physical Review Letters, Marc Barthelemy, from the Institute of ...