urbanization
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Underground Heat Is Sinking Our Cities, Study Says
Heat is a silent hazard sitting beneath cities, threatening to shift infrastructure. A study published this week in Communications Engineering, outlines how heat could be changing major cities, but urban areas throughout the U.S. may not be prepared. Study researchers set up more than 150 sensors above and below ground throughout the Chicago Loop. They…
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The People Moving Back Into Big American Cities Are Mostly Rich White People
We keep hearing that this is the age of rapid urbanisation: By 2050, 70 per cent of the world’s population will live in cities. But in the United States, the people moving into those cities are largely rich, white and childless. What’s more, not as many of them are moving as they were a few…
