Michael Dudley

Winnipeg, home to the largest concentration of Aboriginal people in Canada, considers a controversial plan to turn a 20-acre plot of abandoned industrial land into an "urban reserve" for a First Nations band, which would allow the band to operate business

Well-off and living on higher ground, many of New Orleans' white residents are counting on their city to be rebuilt without much of the former black population returning.

In an effort to protect one of Canada's most flood-prone cities, the City of Winnipeg is expanding its 40-year old floodway.

Hurricane Katrina showed how vulnerable the United States is to oil shocks. Government needs to do more to encourage conservation.

A new report by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme warns that unless governments around the world take action the world faces a massive urban crisis as housing shortages could lead to mega-slums.