The government recently announced that China's future development roadmap is a "new type of urbanization". Vice-Premier Li Keqiang uses the word urbanization to describe the transition toward towns ...

A recent study indicated that the urbanization in eastern China has significant impact on the observed surface warming and the temporal-spatial variations of urbanization effect have been ...

Honorable Ministers, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am delighted to be here today to present our work. This is the second time the Development Research Center and the World Bank are looking into critical ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Our planet’s cities all stand at a crossroads. By 2050, 75% of humanity will call an urban space home. Our current planning, ...

Thirty new insect species of the fly family Phoridae have been discovered in the LA region of California. Describing 30 species in a single paper is rare, but what's especially striking is that all ...

While urbanization has been good for growth and economic transformation, China now needs a new model to support market-based allocation of land and capital in its urbanization, the Washington-based ...