The oscillation between the attraction of cities and their abandonment represents a recurring pattern in human history. This ...

The urbanization of ancient Athens, starting as a region of scattered villages and growing into an influential city, is ...

Analysis of skeletal remains from England before and during Roman occupation confirms theories that the population's health ...

A quiet revolution has just taken place in the way the world understands cities. The UN’s World Urbanization Prospects 2025 ...

As the world's population continues to grow, the population density in cities is rising much more quickly than in rural areas. This phenomenon, known as urbanization, is playing out across the globe ...

Download PDF file of "Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa" 239kb The GDP of many SSA countries is concentrated, and even reliant, on the productivity of its urban centers. It is rare to transition from ...

Our world is becoming increasingly urban. Cities are now home to 45 per cent of the global population of 8.2 billion, according to UN DESA’s World Urbanization Prospects 2025: Summary of Results, ...

Editor’s Note: For 31 years now, Paul Solman’s reports on the NewsHour have aimed to make sense of economic news and research for a general audience. Since 2007 ...

Whether the process of urbanization is harnessed and managed, or allowed to fuel growing divides, will largely determine the future of inequality, says UN DESA’s World Social Report 2020. For the ...

When it comes to cities and urbanization, it is generally thought that bigger is better. But a pair of recent studies suggests that although industrialized nations may have benefited from larger ...