Although 80 percent of Americans live in cities, urban issues are often put on the nation’s back burner. But residents still expect their city governments to deliver the day-to-day services that make ...

The University of Chicago is creating a new network of five Urban Labs to address some of the world’s most daunting urban problems and help realize the promise of cities in an era of global ...

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. -- Urban combat has historically been among the biggest, and most deadly, challenges for militaries. Nevertheless, populations throughout the world are increasingly moving more ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In politics and public policy, narratives are a very big deal. Those who craft and control the dominant narrative exert a lot of influence over how we ...

Paul Waddell, a city planning professor at the University of California, Berkeley, with a penchant for conducting research with what he calls his “big urban data,” is putting his work to a real-world ...

As cities physically expanded worldwide between 1970 and 2010, the population in those cities became less dense, according to a new study. As cities physically expanded worldwide between 1970 and 2010 ...

In 2011, Indy Urban Acres was born out of a partnership between the Indianapolis Parks Department, the non-profit Indianapolis Parks Foundation, Indiana University Health, Gleaners Food Bank, and with ...

In the startup world, incubators have become a common part of the landscape, helping entrepreneurs get new ideas off the ground. A new incubator, Tumml, focuses on an area that has not been as much of ...

Scott Bernstein owes his start as a game changer to a dog bite. Actually, quite a few dog bites. Not one of which was inflicted on his own person. The year was 1974. Bernstein, then a Research ...

“I’ve lived on Brinckerhoff all of my life” Utica resident Carol James said, surveying the house at 1015 Brinckerhoff Ave. “It bothers me because this was my friend’s home.” In November, the building ...