As urbanization accelerates, ecosystems are often pushed to the brink, leading to the degradation of ecological services and heightened environmental stress. Traditional urban planning has typically ...

What is a city? What are the geographical conditions and social factors that lead to the concentration of population in an area, and how does urbanization progress? And what is needed to create urban ...

Traditionally, it has been assumed that cultivating food leads to a loss of biodiversity and negative impacts on an ecosystem. A new study defies this assumption, showing that community gardens and ...

Large-scale mixed-use projects are influencing employment clustering, infrastructure planning, and urban efficiency in the ...

If you’re a tree, country life is much easier than city living. Rural trees — which can live long, productive lives of sometimes more than 100 years — draw on vast resources of an extensive forest ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 64, No. 3 (May 2019), pp. 877-894 (18 pages) Headwater streams draining urbanized watersheds are subject to frequent and intense storm flows. These floods can disrupt ...

As scientists such as Aronson have provided increasing evidence that urban ecosystems can be planned and managed to support high levels of diversity, urban planners and policymakers have become ...

Visions of the urban future tend to revolve around mile-high skyscrapers, flying cars and high-tech solutions to sustainability challenges. But there is another vision that foresees a return to the ...

Peri-urban landscapes are urban-rural interfaces that experience challenges due to dynamic urbanisation and climate change effects. These landscapes are also characterized by overlapping jurisdictions ...

For technologists, building smart cities is not an aspirational goal but a matter of necessity. The World Bank estimates that 70% of the world's population will be living in urban areas by 2050, up ...