Environment, Geography and Urbanization

My photo captures Daniel Arad fishing under the Major Taylor Trail Bridge in Whistler Woods Forest Preserve on the Little Calumet River to collect specimens of Micropteru[...]

This article considers how cost-benefit analyses of farm animal policy would be altered if animal interests were to be directly included in the computations. Currently, a [...]

This study investigates how earmarked funding affects the allocation of public multilateral climate finance, particularly in relation to the stated "50-50" dist [...]

Nitrates in the Upper Mississippi River continue to pose a threat to aquatic life and are associated with a growing number of human health risks including cancer, despite [...]

Small towns and rural communities face particular geographic and demographic obstacles in responding to and preparing for climate change events, particularly in their cap [...]

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) represent a pervasive group of over 15,000 chemicals characterized by their water and stain repellency, heat resistance, and ch [...]

Adverse effects of anthropogenic climate change spanning environmental, public health, and socio-political domains have motivated institutions around the globe to commit [...]

Urban expressways have long been scrutinized for their destructive impacts on the built environment, public health, and the planet. However, the specific impact of Chicag [...]

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A growing body of research demonstrates that individuals aged 65 years and older are disproportionately impacted by climate change, yet there are few policies that provid [...]

In Chicago and Los Ángeles— and just about every pre-war American city— deep socioeconomic inequality often takes the form of residential income segregation. Yet, in [...]

Industrial cities throughout the second half of the 19th-century experienced rapid growth leading to the development of overcrowded and unhealthy living conditions for ma [...]

Letchworth Garden City, England, and the Falkenberg Estate in Berlin, Germany are two of the most influential relics of the Garden City Movement. Both have achieved herit [...]

In 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act introduced the Opportunity Zone (OZ) program to stimulate investments in low-income tracts across the United States through capital ga [...]

This project traces the historical and aesthetic contours of the relationship between the ongoing energy transition, the growing data center industry, and the formation o [...]

Residents of Seattle, Washington, live under constant threat of natural disasters, and the risks are only increasing due to climate change. Hurricane Katrina made clear t [...]

Paris has increasingly sacrificed public open spaces in lower-income areas for social housing construction. Open spaces that remain in the city consist of traditionally m [...]

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the Chicago Housing Authority demolished all of its high-rise family projects and undertook a massive redevelopment plan. The Plan for [...]

In the winter of 2020, Illinois suffered millions of dollars in coastal damage from abnormally strong waves. These waves were fueled by record high lake levels, a phenome [...]

Greenways have risen to prominence in recent decades as more cities begin to implement them into their urban planning. They increase access to green space, create a trans [...]

Many U.S. cities face the question of how to redevelop vacant post-industrial land, or brownfields. The city of Chicago responded to this issue with The Calumet Open Spac [...]

Anthropogenic climate change has already begun to displace millions of people from their homes globally, and is projected to induce hundreds of thousands of people to mig [...]

Cambodian cities continue to experience major growth, due principally to in-country migration. However, the recent trajectory and historical context of urbanisation diffe [...]

While scale is an essential factor in discussions about sustainable cities, there is no common understanding of what scale is or how it should be measured. This paper she [...]

Frederic Webster, chief preparator at the Carnegie Museum (CM) from 1897 to 1907, is credited by some for “rescuing” Lion Attacking a Dromedary (LAD) from destruction [...]