Written by Alejandro Restrepo Montoya Published on July 31, 2024 Medellín's urban plan focuses on answering how urban planning can improve people's quality of life. By developing its proposal, the ...

This illustration depicts the impact of urbanization on soil microbial communities across different climates and vegetation types. The top section shows a gradient from natural forests to urban ...

Is the tri-partite Environmental Justice Framework exhausted to provide answers to the current challenges of urban environments? Critical environmental justice has emerged to question how current ...

Explore the relationship between industrialization and urbanization, and learn how job creation and manufacturing drive city growth and economic opportunity.

Plants reflect urban climate and soil conditions with remarkable precision. Using more than 80 million observations from plant identification apps, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for ...

Associate Professor of Sociology Hillary Angelo, co-founder and founding director of CUES. Sociology Professor Miriam Greenberg, assistant director and co-founder of CUES. One of UC Santa Cruz’s ...

Throughout history, numerous cities worldwide have been settled and built on hillsides, where one can observe the myriad urban challenges they face due to their topographical conditions. However, ...

There is no set definition of “urban gardening,” although it usually refers to the use of any available green space in urban areas to grow food. The goal of urban gardening (also not set in stone) is ...