A comprehensive UN report has found that cities and towns are home to 81 per cent of the world’s population, much more than ...

In urban settings, the built environment encompasses a complex array of physical, social, economic, and environmental factors ...

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After 2000, migration from rural to urban areas across the Pan Amazon intensified, as people started moving to either main urban centers or cities in the highlands or on coastlines. In Brazil, already ...

Sunday Adedini receives funding from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation through the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). All these pressures, combined with poor planning, ...