Business Week

China is on a path to become an overwhelmingly urban country -- in sharp contrast to its largely rural recent past. Cities across the country are hoping to make the transition gracefully.

New office and apartment buildings in New York City are now mandated to provide a certain proportion of secure bike parking spaces.

In a time of plummeting oil prices, one might think rail would lose business to trucks, but the freight business is more detailed. In this interview with Burlington Northern Santa Fe CEO Mathew Rose, one gains an insight into freight rail's future.

As China embarks on the greatest rail-building investment since the U.S. built its transcontinental railroad, this article points to the urgent need to reform its state-controlled pricing system, both for freight and passengers, to make it effective.

A team of management consulting and foreign policy professionals has released a report analyzing which cities of the world are most global in reach, looking at business activity, human capital, and information exchange. New York comes out on top.

Business Week looks for the most recession-proof cities, using as their main criteria an abundance of jobs in stable industries like government, health care, and education.

Frequent Rider Miles, on-line tickets and on-board wi-fi are but a few of the amenities and cost cutting strategies that are attracting riders to inter-city bus travel.

Business Week looks at a recent list of the best cities for design in America.

China's booming cities have a lot to teach western architects, planners, and urban policy makers, says professor Thomas J. Campanella.

The urban shift in demographics is not just a problem for planners.

The best way to improve automobiles is to improve cities, according to this article from Business Week.

Despite its plentiful oil reserves, the Arabian emirate of Abu Dhabi is planning and developing some green cities that will be able to operate without the power of oil.

Subway construction and expansion is being seen in cities across the world.

Subways are proliferating across the globe as metro status symbols and attracting new forms of urban investment.

After a growing number of complaints against its presence in one of China's most significant historic and cultural sites, the chain decides to close its doors.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg views citizens as customers and city workers as assets. How does this translate into a new city hall transparency and vastly improved city services?

Ambitious plans for a new neighborhood on 2,400 acres of polluted lakefront are underway near downtown Toronto.

Several of Second Life's most successful entrepreneurs making real money in a virtual world are "real estate" developers.

The first of its kind development is hoping to transform the booming interest in all things green into, well, green.

A list of neighborhoods heading towards gentrification in the nation's 10 largest cities aims to give homebuyers and investors a chance to get in before prices skyrocket.