How suburban sprawl and climate change fuel wildfires The scene in the Los Angeles area over the last week has become heartbreakingly familiar — people on the run and watching helplessly as ...

A new study and interactive maps show how much hotter urban sprawl makes neighborhoods feel in 65 cities across the US.

Water concerns are causing Las Vegas residents to question the prospective sale of 3.3 million acres of federally owned land in Nevada.

The sprawl surrounding urban cores, the researchers found, is responsible for a full 50 percent of the country's household emissions -- while containing far fewer than 50 percent of the population.

Once Jaeger and his co-authors had developed the WUP method, the research team combed through detailed data sets on 32 European countries to map out general trends and pinpoint problem areas. They ...

A stated-preference survey conducted last year revealed that as many as 30% of sampled Concordia students had never heard of urban sprawl. To address this knowledge gap, this event will launch and ...

South America’s Casarabe culture built a network of large and small settlements in what’s now Bolivia centuries before the Spanish arrived.

He says his maps are a way to understand the American landscape through a different lens. So far, he’s mapped out urban sprawl, freshwater, and all of the shrubs, grass, and forests in the country.

Using the city's open data portal, Eugene Chen created an animated map of Edmonton that tracks building construction in the city from 1917 to 2017.

Urban sprawl is a growing concern for many Canadian cities, but there's disagreement about whether it's something Northerners should worry about. According to a map published by Maclean's magazine, it ...

A map published by Maclean's magazine imagines how large various cities would be if Canada's entire population moved there, at current density levels.