“Location, location, location,” has long been a real estate mantra. Once a property has been identified in a market with enough growth and demand, the next step is entitlement and permitting.

Even before entering the entitlement and permitting process, there is a lot of work to create new housing. What follows is a brief sketch of the development process in the United States. In general, ...

In theory, urban planning is a process of elaborating solutions that aim both to improve or requalify an existing urban area, as well as to create a new urbanization in a given region. As a discipline ...

Whether the process of urbanization is harnessed and managed, or allowed to fuel growing divides, will largely determine the future of inequality, says UN DESA’s World Social Report 2020. For the ...

Urbanization is the single-most important transformation taking place on the African continent, with more than 450 million new urban dwellers expected by 2040 Strong commitment from African ...

COVID-19 brought the relation between humans and animals to the core of social and scientific debates. COVID-19 is a zoonotic disease: the coronavirus that causes it crossed species boundaries from ...