Shannon Van Zandt – Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University The tornadoes and wildfires that devastated communities from Kentucky to Colorado in the final weeks of 2021 left thousands of people…
Mélanie Lindbjerg Guichon – PhD Candidate, Aarhus University Inequality is an issue that arises everywhere in the world today. Recent studies by economists such as Branko Milanovic and Thomas Piketty have looked at trends…
Lisa D. Tinsley Urban gardens are transforming cities around the world. Urban and peri-urban farms supply food to about 700 million city dwellers — one-quarter of the world’s urban population…
Extreme urban heat exposure has dramatically increased since the early 1980s, with the total exposure tripling over the past 35 years. Today, about 1.7 billion people, nearly one-quarter of the…
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia The child population in America is the most diverse in history, but children remain the poorest age group in the…