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Drought and shrinking water supplies could pose serious limits to growth in the American southwest and southeast.

Mumbai is considering a plan to sell off a slum to developers, who will be obligated to relocate the residents in exchange for rights to build in what is becoming prime real estate.

This column bemoans the stark architectural differences between the insides and outsides of suburban houses.

Much has been made recently about how U.S. municipal and state governments aren't waiting for the federal government to act on climate change. Now it appears that these efforts can't succeed without Washington.

Despite a booming oil economy and a population of almost a million people, Alberta's capital city of Edmonton finds "place branding" a struggle.

The growth in biofuels is putting new pressures on the global food supply chain.

A new documentary called Radiant City paints a peculiar portrait of contemporary suburbia.

Two small Canadian communities may become North American leaders in the drive to eliminate plastic bags from their waste streams.

The most recent Canadian Census shows that Canada is rapidly urbanizing. Unfortunately, writes Jeffrey Simpson, its systems of government and economic development strategies are stuck in a rural past.

An internal government report questions why the Canadian federal government held back more than $70 million dollars from homelessness programs.

A new report from the Conference Board of Canada says that Canada's cities are neglected and disempowered, and need more taxing power of their own and more direct investments from other levels of government.

Canada's official multiculturalism -- which is more about celebrating diversity than achieving equality -- is encouraging a dramatic growth in urban and suburban ethnic enclaves, and may be impeding integration with the larger society.

Cities like Linfen bear the ecological burden of China's massive, coal-fired economic growth.

With more and more infill sites being developed, environmental due diligence on potential development sites has become the norm, partly due to the insistence of lenders and municipalities.

Intended to be one of 9 Shanghai suburbs evoking architecture and culture from other countries, the pseudo-Canadian "Maple Town" suburb bears little resemblance to its original plans.

With plush furniture, coffee shops, rock concerts and meeting spaces, public libraries are reinventing themselves as the city's primary public place.

New statistics from the Canadian Urban Transit Association show that larger cities with better, more frequent transit service, and incentives such as universal bus passes for university students, saw major increases in ridership.

With "localism" being trumpeted by all sides of the political spectrum, maybe it's time to ask if local needs are better served by nation states, writes Doug Saunders.

Architects and other observers are still debating whether or not the built environment can contribute to social decay and urban unrest.

Canadian energy giant EnCana and the City of Calgary hope that the corporation's new headquarters, scheduled for completion in 2011, will put Calgary on the "architectural map."