Cities do not always grow in a straight line. Like living organisms, they experience growth, maturity, and sometimes decline.

Our world is becoming increasingly urban. Cities are now home to 45 per cent of the global population of 8.2 billion, according to UN DESA’s World Urbanization Prospects 2025: Summary of Results, ...

Urban shrinkage is a natural phase in the life cycle of industrialized cities that occurs due to population decline. Most ...

In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, some U.S. leaders and pundits pointed to hard-hit cities such as New York, Milan and Wuhan as proof that population density was to blame for coronavirus ...

Within the United States, both natural population growth and the number of people moving are on the decline in recent years, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. But that doesn’t mean all the ...

Last year, the United States faced some of the highest homelessness levels ever recorded, with 771,480 people counted on a ...

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