Urbanization is reshaping soil microbial communities worldwide, driving an unexpected homogenization of bacterial populations while fungal communities remain more resistant to change. A recent ...

Today, more than half of the world’s population – 4.4 billion people – lives in cities. This shift is set to continue, with the urban population expected to more than double by 2050, at which point ...

Urbanisation is the movement of populations from rural areas to towns and cities. It tends to happen when a country's economy changes and new industries develop. In recent years, several countries ...

Half of the global population already lives in cities, and by 2050 two-thirds of the world's people are expected to live in urban areas. But in cities two of the most pressing problems facing the ...

President Abdul Kalam, first proposed the idea of ‘Smart habitation as an integration of villages and cities working in harmony to reduce the rural and urban divide to a thin line’.

Although they have made progress, South Asian countries have struggled to make the most of the opportunity urbanization provides them to transform their economies to join the ranks of richer nations ...