Urban sprawl is not just unsightly. It could also be impeding intergenerational mobility for low-income residents and reinforcing racial inequality, according to a series of recent studies led by a ...

Urban sprawl is not just unsightly. It could also be impeding intergenerational mobility for low-income residents and reinforcing racial inequality, according to a series of recent studies led by a ...

Learn how to capture the delicate balance between human-built cities and the natural world. How do cities impact nature? In this video, Jeff Kass introduces the concept of urban sprawl and teaches us ...

Atlantans would be healthier if the Georgia capital and metro area were more friendly to pedestrians, said Ellen Dunham-Jones, a professor at Georgia Tech, director of the university’s urban design ...

RACINE - When the population of an area grows by 3 percent while chewing up 38 percent more land, something appears to be out of whack. That example - taken right from southeastern Wisconsin between ...

A National Geographic special issue examines the way we've been building cities. "Rethinking Cities" is part of National Geographic’s special-edition, single-topic issue on "Cities: Ideas for a ...

"There's no place in Southern California like Camp Pendleton when it comes to open space along the coast," said Bill Fulton, a professor of practice in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at ...

That's what a growing number of health researchers are coming to believe. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is launching a major study to examine the connection between urban sprawl and ...

A tiny songbird called the black phoebe is trying to adapt to city life – and it’s not an easy job. They didn’t naturally evolve in the city, and they face different threats than they might in their ...

In January, an endangered Florida panther known as UCFP479 became the first to die this year in a vehicle collision along a rural southwestern Florida road. The male panther, just under 2 years old, ...

The Napa County Planning Commission will be holding a public hearing on the Napa Pipe rezoning from an industrial zone to an urban sprawl zone in the county outside of, but next to, the city of Napa.