Urban

Writer Tara Sturm explores the merits of incremental urbanism on revitalization efforts with the help of L.A. architect Alan Pullman, highlighting grassroots, community-driven economic development.

Faced with climate change and poverty, Africans are focusing on a new farming frontier: the cities.

Big box retailers are continuing to target urban markets, and finding new ways to squeeze their large sizes into dense urban settings.

A new Brookings Institute report points to urban centers as key for growing a "new" American economy.

In a unique collaboration, an American lawyer and a Venezuelan architect merge thinking on holistic design, planning and regulation

As China's cities grow, the economic policy that determines who is a rural resident and who is an urban resident are in need of some changes, according to this article.

The income gap between rural and urban residents in China has increased again in 2008, and has been attributed to other social inequities in the growing country.

The "new town" of Columbia, Maryland, was built in the 1960s as a model for new growth. The area has remained primarily suburban, but plans for a revitalization district could bring an urban look to this suburban town.

City Limits breaks down the differences between the two presidential candidates with a focus on urban issues.

A new study shows that noise pollution on the streets of San Francisco is putting nearly one in six residents at risk for heart disease, high blood pressure and other stress-related illnesses.

Rural communities in Ottawa are being wiped out as urban trends take over the minds of developers and consumers. Rural residents are looking at ways to preserve the character of their communities.

What may be the oldest urban site in the world has been unearthed in Peru.