Weather extremes, such as heatwaves and torrential rainfalls, are becoming more frequent and more intense across the United States under climate change. In late September of this year, flash-flooding ...

A University of Wyoming researcher was part of a recent study that investigated how changes in urban land and population will affect future populations’ exposure to weather extremes at the end of the ...

Fractal analysis has emerged as a vital tool in understanding the inherent complexity and spatial dynamics of urban patterns and networks. By focusing on the properties of self-similarity and scale ...

For as long as people have built cities, they have been centers of both opportunity and inequality. In ancient times, this was evident in the size of houses, the grandeur of monuments, and the ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Americans like living in cities, and according to statistics in the United Nations World Population Database so do an increasing number of people throughout the world. About ...

Urban vs rural consumption patterns reveal clear differences in spending, driven by income, access, and lifestyle. Here’s ...

Resilience can be interpreted as the comprehensive ability of a system to prepare for, absorb, and recover from external or internal disturbances and shocks. In the context of human mobility, ...

Urban environments shape microbial exposure through building design, occupancy, ventilation, moisture, and contact with green ...

Introduction -- The history of urban ecology : an ecologists's perspective -- Ecology in cities : man-made physical conditions -- Ecology in cities : patterns of urban biodiversity -- Ecology in ...