How fast are cities growing?First page of articledoi:10.1002/ncr.4110320506Chester CooperJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd.National Municipal Review
This month, ABC's daily podcast "Start Here" is examining how a turbulent real estate market is upending many American communities. In this "Priced Out" series, we take a look at how cities are dealing with a growing dilemma: What to do with all...
Cities are on the front lines of this public health emergency. People living in urban areas are among the hardest hit when heatwaves happen, partly because ofurban heat islands. This is a phenomenon that occurs when cities replace the natural land cover with dense concentrations of surfaces th...
Eco-cities are urban areas designed with sustainability and environmental health in mind. “A successful eco-city embodies sustainability and resilience at its core, minimizing carbon emissions, optimizing resources, and incorporating green infrastructure,” said Al-Mizani. Such eco-cities utilize renewabl...
Our cities are growing because we are social creatures who need to congregate, socialise and collaborate and the hospitality industry has been catering for those needs since its inception. Perhaps leveraging innovations in the hospitality industry will help maximise the signif...
Devastating floods are becoming more and more common around the world. The warming climate is leading to heavier rainfall, but could the way that cities are growing be making things worse? Could we design cities in a different way to reduce the risk of flooding?As cities expand, and more ...
A growing number of cities and states have proposed relaxed zoning and other regulatory changes to address the nationwide housing shortage. Those policies allow bigger and taller housing developments in districts where they would have otherwise been restricted and impose easier permitting processes for ce...
Then cities came into being(形成).Today, some people are moving back to small towns. That's strange, isn't it?阅读短文,判断下列句子与文章内容是(T)否(F)符合。(T)1. People moved from place to place long long ago.(T)2. No one knows how our ancestors(祖先) learned about growing ...
Passage72 How Cities Began Long long ago, there were only a few thousand people in the world. These people moved from place to place over the land, hunting animals for food. No one knows how or when these people learned about growing food. But when they did,their lives changed. They di...
In fact, the Brooklyn project represents the intersection of two growing trends: mapping fresh food markets in US cities, and private citizens creating online maps of local neighbourhood features. According to Michael Goodchild, a geographer at the University of California at Santa Barbara, citizen ...