- Madrid preparing up for F1: the return of the World Championship to the capital starting in 2026 on a semi-urban circuit is finalizing the details and the announcement will come next week https://as.com/motor/formula_1/madrid-se-engalana-para-la-f1-n/?id_externo_rsoc=CM_ES_FB 85 comments formula1
- Brazil planning to build the world’s largest anti-dengue mosquito macro farm: The goal of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s government is to protect 70 million Brazilians from dengue fever by releasing modified insects in urban areas https://english.elpais.com/opinion/2023-04-20/brazil-planning-to-build-the-worlds-largest-anti-dengue-mosquito-macro-farm.html 16 comments worldnews
- Urban Naxals Trying To Enter Gujarat In New Appearances, Says PM Narendra Modi In Bharuch | PM Modi also said when he took over as the Prime Minister in 2014, the Indian economy was ranked 10th in the world, and it has now come to the fifth position https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/urban-naxals-trying-to-enter-gujarat-with-new-appearances-says-pm-modi-in-bharuch-3417515 7 comments india
- Egypt, Siemens sign contract to build world’s 6th largest high-speed rail system - Urban & Transport - Egypt https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/1235/467004/Egypt/Urban--Transport/Egypt,-Siemens-sign-contract-to-build-world%E2%80%99s-th-l.aspx 8 comments worldnews
- “Just 25 big cities — almost all of them in China — accounted for more than half of the climate-warming gases pumped out by a sample of 167 urban hubs around the world.” https://www.frontiersin.org/files/Articles/696381/frsc-03-696381-HTML/image_m/frsc-03-696381-g002.jpg 33 comments climate
- Just 25 mega-cities produce 52% of the world's urban greenhouse gas emissions https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-07/f-j2m070621.php 136 comments worldnews
- Urban crime fell by over a third around the world during COVID-19 shutdowns according to an analysis of crime rates in 27 major cities across 23 countries. Daily assaults fell by an average of 35%, robberies by 46%, and other types of theft by 47%. https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/covidcrime 222 comments science
- Insect farming can be done efficiently in urban areas will be providing food security as the world population soars. https://www.downtoearth.org.in/interviews/food/-insect-farming-can-be-done-efficiently-in-urban-areas--68213 3 comments india
- Global Urban Growth Typified By Suburbs, Not Skyscrapers. An analysis of 478 cities with populations of more than 1 million people finds that urban growth across the world is predominantly moving outward rather than upward, a trend that is generally considered inefficient and unsustainable. https://environment.yale.edu/news/article/global-urban-growth-typified-by-suburbs-not-skyscrapers 4 comments science
- People in rural areas are gaining weight much faster than city dwellers, finds a new study looking at 112 million adults around the world. Emerging economies, like Chile and Turkey, saw the biggest gains. The find contradicts the idea that urban lifestyles are fueling the rise of obesity. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2019/05/09/obesity-is-rising-fastest-in-rural-populations/#.xnjprrzonyu 766 comments science
- Obesity data on 112 million people shows that people in rural areas, not cities, are responsible for biggest increases in BMI around the world, contradicting previous research showing urbanization is the main driver of the obesity epidemic. https://www.inverse.com/article/55591-obesity-epidemic-urban-and-rural-lifestyle 4 comments science
- TIL London is the largest urban forest in the world: with more than 8 million trees - about one for every Londoner - the capital of the UK is literally classified as a forest in its own right. https://www.lonelyplanet.com/england/london/travel-tips-and-articles/16-things-you-never-knew-about-london/40625c8c-8a11-5710-a052-1479d275611f 6 comments europe
- Colossal megacities will grow as the world's population increasingly moves into urban environments, according to the UN https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/16/world/world-population-cities-un-intl/index.html?sr=twcnn051718world-population-cities-un-intl0810amvodtop 11 comments worldnews
- India backs creation of UN outfit to coordinate world's activities for urban development http://www.firstpost.com/india/india-backs-creation-of-un-outfit-to-coordinate-worlds-activities-for-urban-development-4013991.html 4 comments india
- Iraqi forces in Mosul see deadliest urban combat since World War II http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/03/29/united-states-mosul-isis-deadly-combat-world-war-ii/99787764/ 4 comments worldnews
- North India, the world’s most-polluted region, faces a conundrum. India accounted for 14 of the 30 worst-polluted cities in the world, according to WHO data on urban pollution released in May http://www.livemint.com/politics/mlhivtqg0k7h0j2z6qnnvi/north-india-the-worlds-mostpolluted-region-faces-a-conun.html 30 comments india
- Dutch company PlantLab has developed an indoor urban farming approach 40 times more productive than open fields. This technique could grow the world's vegetables and fruits in a space smaller than Holland. http://weburbanist.com/2015/04/02/plantlab-urban-farms-40-times-more-productive-than-open-fields/ 2 comments science
- London architects have designed the world's first skyscraper that casts no shadow - assisted by computer modeling, their novel creation addresses a lack of light in dense urban cores in and beyond the UK http://weburbanist.com/2015/03/16/sunny-disposition-computer-aided-skyscraper-casts-no-shadow/ 11 comments worldnews
- UN: 90% of world population growth to be in urban slums http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/142760/robert-muggah/fixing-fragile-cities 6 comments geopolitics
- Almost 40% of the world’s waste that ends up in huge rubbish tips, is mostly found near urban populations in poor countries and posing a serious threat to human health and the environment http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/oct/06/smelly-contaminated-disease-worlds-open-dumps 6 comments worldnews
- 15 of World's Best Urban Bike Infrastructures http://gizmodo.com/15-of-worlds-best-urban-bike-infrastructures-1577377892 10 comments bicycling
- Africa to spew 1/2 of world's particle pollution by 2030 - With its exploding urban population burning ever more coal and wood, Africa on course to contribute 55% of the world's particle pollutants http://news.yahoo.com/africa-spew-half-worlds-particle-pollution-2030-205129862.html 4 comments worldnews
- Colombia's Medellin named 'most innovative city': Medellin, in Colombia, has been named the world's most innovative city in a competition organised by the non-profit Urban Land Institute. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-21638308 10 comments worldnews
- Urban ecology in Boston and beyond. Scientists are exploring how people, buildings, wildlife and pollution interact in the world's cities. http://www.nature.com/news/the-science-of-cities-life-in-the-concrete-jungle-1.11862 3 comments science
- While adults turn a blind eye, urban schoolchildren are playing high-stakes games inside a super-sexualised world http://www.tehelka.com/story_main44.asp?filename=ne240410coverstory.asp 46 comments india
- Sixty million people in the developing world are leaving the countryside every year. The squatter cities that have emerged can teach us much about future urban living http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2010/01/how-slums-can-save-the-planet/# 33 comments worldnews
- The Dark, Imaginative, and Beautiful World Of Urban Decay [Pics] http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/01/18/the-beauty-of-urban-decay/ 9 comments reddit.com
- Map of Urban Rail Transit Around the World [pic] http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/12/a_picture_is_wo_11.php 6 comments reddit.com
- Today (May 23. 2007) World Population Becomes More Urban Than Rural http://news.ncsu.edu/releases/2007/may/104.html 10 comments reddit.com
- North Vancouver to be the world's first city to use bitcoin mining for heating | Urbanized https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/north-vancouver-bitcoin-mining-heating-lonsdale-energy-corporation?fbclid=iwar3orpequ7mqutorzrnd_60bastcsjcfo3oacymzjpuc41cbb--_zxrlb7e 11 comments cryptocurrency
- U.S. life expectancy decreased by 1.87 years between 2018 and 2020, a drop not seen since World War II, according to new research from Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Colorado Boulder and the Urban Institute. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-06/vcu-pdl062121.php 750 comments science
- Coronavirus Turns Urban Life’s Roar to Whisper on World’s Seismographs | Geoscientists are getting a clearer picture of what’s going on beneath our feet as lockdowns keep many of us at home. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/science/seismographs-lockdown-coronavirus.html 436 comments technology
- 'Bhopal’s tragedy has not stopped': the urban disaster still claiming lives 35 years on. The Union Carbide factory explosion remains the world’s worst industrial accident – but as its dreadful legacy becomes increasingly apparent, victims are still waiting for justice. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/dec/08/bhopals-tragedy-has-not-stopped-the-urban-disaster-still-claiming-lives-35-years-on 5 comments worldnews
- 9,000 years ago, a community with modern urban problems: Residents of Catalhoyuk, one of the world’s first large farming communities, were also among the first humans to experience some of the perils of urban living, including overcrowding, infectious diseases, violence and environmental problems. https://news.osu.edu/9000-years-ago-a-community-with-modern-urban-problems/ 36 comments science
- Colombian authorities have announced work will begin on July 27 to unearth what they say is the world's largest urban mass grave, located in a garbage tip in a sprawling mountainside slum known as Comuna 13 in western Medellin. http://www.trust.org/item/20150717170755-1wwlx/?source=jt 37 comments worldnews
- Why are rich people's houses so big? Because Uncle Sam pays for extra rooms "Helping the wealthy live in more luxurious homes is worse than a waste of taxpayers’ money. Larger houses require more energy to heat, and urban sprawl has been a disaster for the world’s climate." http://knowmore.washingtonpost.com/2014/03/27/why-are-rich-peoples-houses-so-big-because-uncle-sam-pays-for-extra-rooms/?tid=rssfeed 338 comments politics
- Members of one of the most isolated tribes on Earth have briefly emerged from the Peruvian jungle to ask for food..The tribe, which numbers in the hundreds, has had virtually no contact with the wider world..Campaigners say logging and urban dev't have diminished the area in which the tribe can live http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-23766765 124 comments worldnews
- China Is Like 19th-Century America - Predominantly rural country, undergoing massive urban, industrial shift. World's workshop. Envied, criticised by economic rivals. America in 1850. China now. Imperfect but useful analogy http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2029400,00.html 52 comments worldnews
- Megacities - Over the next two decades, the world will see a burst of urban expansion at a speed and on a scale never before witnessed in human history. But not all the world will take part. When you hear about the coming urban age, it's really a story about rising Asia http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/08/16/prime_numbers_megacities?page=full 12 comments worldnews
- Under a dual onslaught of global warming and localised urban heating, some of the world’s cities may be as much as 8C (14.4F) warmer by 2100, researchers have warned. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/30/climate-change-could-make-cities-8c-hotter-scientists?cmp=twt_a-science_b-gdnscience 27 comments science
