Urban

A growing body of research suggests that human-dense cities and flourishing wildlife aren't incompatible after all.

Researchers found that urban gardens and allotments provide especially good habitat for pollinator communities.

Of the more than 50,000 people in the state whose voter registrations are frozen or "pending," about 98 percent live in urban areas.

Buildings account for roughly 50 percent of a city's total carbon emissions, and 70 percent in major cities like London, Los Angeles, and Paris.

The company just announced its acquisition of the Michigan Central Station in downtown Detroit, an icon of the city's 20th-century glory days and its precipitous fall since.

A fox walks through a cemetery at dusk on January 10th, 2018, in Bath, England.

In an age of employment uncertainty and a growing income gap, urban America needs to find new ways to infuse equity into the equation.

A jungle of reflective skyscrapers will usually be better off than a low-lying district of similarly shaped townhouses.

Where we find innovation, we find industry clusters. That doesn't mean the two are causally linked.

We continue to confuse population change with net domestic migration. Over the last 20 years, the U.S. has become increasingly rural even as many of its cities have grown.

People vote with their feet. The regions with the best retention should be the regions with the best quality of place.

Many of the efforts made to resuscitate dying cities aren't concerned with dying neighborhoods. Sometimes it's easier to just amputate the limbs to save the body.

First introduced in 1992, the Housing First model suggested that we fight homelessness by first giving the homeless a place to live. Twenty-four years later, the study of a program in Hamilton, Ontario, sheds some light on how the system is working today.

Anxiety, mood disorders, and a heightened risk of developing schizophrenia: The psychological problems with urban living. (And some ways to potentially avoid them.)

As long as talented people born in different places are coming together, even the Orkney Islands can be an innovation hub.

How the 'burbs make room for risks.

A new pair of studies helps to explain why city-dwellers seem to fall deeper in love with the urban environment the longer they spend there.