Cities worldwide face a growing challenge that affects millions of residents daily. Urban areas globally have become home to over half of the world's population, leading to the intensification of the ...

Hundreds of urban areas in the U.S. are becoming rural, but it’s not because people are leaving. It’s just that the U.S. Census Bureau is changing its definition of an urban area. Under the new ...

More than 1,100 cities, towns and villages in the U.S. lost their status as urban areas on Thursday as the U.S. Census Bureau released a new list of places considered urban based on revised criteria.

Sarah Lorraine Goodman always wanted to settle down in her hometown of Sacramento, California, but life got in the way. After moving to San Jose for grad school in 2009, a job and a boyfriend kept her ...

The deadly heat waves in back-to-back summers have left people throughout the U.S. and Europe desperate for relief. It's urban centers that have felt the intense temperatures the most — and where ...

Houston’s urban area, which Rice researcher Stephen Klineberg has long referred to as the “blob that ate east Texas,” is about to gobble its way across an important boundary, opening up the ...

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