This article explores how rapid construction affects stray survival, why the issue deserves more attention, and what steps ...

Nearly 3,000 gullies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have grown the size of a studio apartment in the last 20 years.

Hundreds of thousands of people are at risk of losing homes, businesses—and lives—as giant “gullies” expand into cities ...

Urban development can magnify the risk of environmental hazards such as flash flooding. Pollution and physical barriers to ...

Cities are “mosaics” of habitat, largely influenced by how they are zoned, she said. Parsons is using the tents, and the data ...

Key opportunities in the Mivan Construction Market include addressing rapid urbanization and infrastructure needs in emerging markets through fast, scalable building methods. The growing trend of ...

Gigantic trenches known as gullies are opening up in cities in Africa, swallowing up homes and businesses, sometimes in an instant, a study has found. About 118,600 people, on average, in the ...

Urbanization provides South Asian countries with the potential to transform their economies to join the ranks of richer nations in both prosperity and livability.

Researchers at IIT-Guwahati have developed a nanosensor made from milk protein and thymine that can instantly detect ...

China's leaders reaffirmed their intention to turn urbanization into a powerful engine to drive growth and remake the economy, saying they would encourage rural residents to move to smaller cities ...

Malayan Cement Bhd. expects future infrastructure projects driven in part by Malaysia’s rapidly growing urban population to ...