Almost 1,000 cities, towns and villages in the U.S. lost their status as urban areas on Thursday as the U.S. Census Bureau released a new list of places considered urban based on revised criteria.

Last month’s release of the World Cities Report 2016 marks another milestone in the lead-up to Habitat III, the U. N.’s major summit on urbanization taking place later this year. In offering extensive ...

Sri Lanka has a visibly high rate of urbanization and ambitious plans for further urbanization through the envisioned Western Region Megapolis Project. Nonetheless, the latest official statistics ...