As urbanization rapidly increases, city life is becoming a reality for an ever-growing share of the global population. While cities can create opportunities for health, urban living can also adversely ...

How relatedness to nature is linked to well-being is determined by district-level socioeconomic status. The Kobe University ...

This shift is set to continue, with the urban population expected to more than double by 2050, at which point nearly 7 in 10 people will live in cities. Cities are engines of economic growth ...

Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) provide summary measures derived from the Census and can help users understand the relative level of social and economic wellbeing of a region. SEIFA uses ...

"Urban areas across the region continue to experience the impacts of social, economic and climate vulnerabilities in vastly different ways. This prevents the benefits of economic growth from ...

The Center for Urban ... urban areas in New Jersey. We concentrate on educating students by providing real world experience in urban entrepreneurship and socioeconomic development and by taking a ...

many jobs that were traditionally considered to be urban can be performed in rural areas too.” The rise of new digital technologies provides an opportunity to bridge the rural-urban divide ...