Researchers are using unique tools to map urban areas around the globe, potentially revolutionizing large-scale analysis of urbanization, land use and city growth. Researchers at University of ...

The rapid urban expansion that has occurred across the whole of East-Southeast Asia in the last decade has been mapped by researchers for the first time. Researchers have, for the first time, mapped ...

This is an urbanization map of the U.S., derived from city lights data. Legened: urban = red, peri-urban = yellow. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

Yesterday we reported that Google its competitors may be grappling to become leaders in hyper-local mapping. Google’s approach: ditching map-data provider Tele-Atlas for its own super-detailed map ...

Step aside, Google Maps; stand down, Apple Maps. Researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Germany have created a new online atlas that shows the location of 2.75 billion buildings ...

In 2016, some 54 percent of the world’s population lives in cities, with that figure expected to rise to 75 percent by 2030. Curious about how urbanization has developed over thousands of years and ...

Dr. Joan Clos, executive director of UN-Habitat, leads a conversation about the New Urban Agenda in Surabaya. (Credit: UN-Habitat) This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or ...

The United Nations logo is pictured in front of the United Nations Headquarters building during the 71st United Nations General Assembly in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S., September 22, 2016.

In 1570, the Flemish cartographer Abraham Ortelius published the first modern atlas, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theater of the World). The Age of Discovery was just kicking into high gear, and ...

Eugenie L. Birch is Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education at the Penn Institute for Urban Research at the University of Pennsylvania, and President of the General Assembly of ...