All cities have gone through the ebb and flow of social distancing and lockdowns, with regulations repealed as cases decline and hurriedly re-imposed when cases return. But few urban residents likely ...

Mumbai. Shanghai. Tokyo. Beijing. According to the United Nations, megacities—urban areas with a population of ten million or more—housed approximately 12 percent of urban dwellers as of 2014. Here ...

Why America Tried Building 13 Megacities And Failed The history of planning in America is fascinating, like the transition ...

The modern megacity may have been largely an invention of the West, but it’s increasingly to be found largely in the East. The seven largest megacities (defined as areas of continuous urban ...

NEW YORK CITY -- Former U.S. president Bill Clinton looked out past the glaring white lights, into the hundreds of faces in the audience, and breathed in deeply. "This is the shape of the modern world ...

The New York metropolitan area gobbles up more energy than any other major city in the world, according to a new study that aims to calculate the resources consumed in the world's largest cities. The ...

Over the last century, the explosion of the human population has been accompanied by the growth of cities worldwide. The increased presence of large cities presents unique global challenges regarding ...

With 10 billion people expected to cram into urban areas by mid-century, the world will add at least 14 new megacities — many of which are at risk of threats including food and water insecurity, ...