Cities versus cities
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The traditional competition for U.S. offshore outsourcing business was between nations. That's about to change, according to a new study.
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More than half of the world's 3.3 billion people will be living in cities by next year, according to a U.N. report set to be released Wednesday. By 2030, cities will be home to close to 5 billion.
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All over the world, the strength of economies increasingly depends on metropolitan areas. The New York area&#146;s economy is no exception. It generates goods and services amounting to about $900 billion a year. In fact, the economy of only one of the following areas is larger than that of Greater New York. Which one?
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By The News Herald, Panama City, Fla.  Sep. 6--In Panama City Beach, it seems buildings are either coming or going. Except some aren't going fast enough.  Aggressive development has led to two types of eyesores.
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A U.S. environmental engineer says Americans like living in cities, as do an increasing number of people around the world.  Arizona State University Professor John Crittenden says about 81 percent of the U.S. population and about half of the world's people now live in urban areas.
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By KRISTINE OWRAM  (CP) - The suburbs of Calgary sprawl beyond the reach of the city's public transportation system, swallowing up what were once tiny communities like Okotoks and Airdrie and putting pressure on water resources.
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Modern urban growth means rethinking the modern city if city life is to remain comfortably sustainable, leading architect Norman Foster has warned.
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Blog: Enhanced information isn't available for all cities yet, though.
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XIAMEN, China  - Dirty, polluted, and congested -- China's large cities have an unenviably poor reputation.
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A report to be released Monday found that people who live in areas with a high degree of sprawl are more likely to report chronic health problems such as high blood pressure, arthritis, headaches and breathing difficulties compared to residents in less
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China is booming and Beijing is its cosmopolitan heart. What's the platform of choice for the city's new tech and media elite? Well, it's not the Mac. But China's Macophiles are banding together. Hector Mackenzie reports from the Chinese capital.
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Big cities are turning to new technologies and theories to try to relieve an old problem: traffic congestion
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LIVING in suburbia takes a greater toll on your health than the so-called pressures of the big city, according to new research from the United States.
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There are two homes for sale in my neighborhood. One has curb appeal, the other does not. Both are the same four-bedroom model.
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Although New York has for many years been the nationÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂs most populous city, its mayorÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂs office has not been an effective springboard for candidates with statewide or national ambitions ÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂ something former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani hopes to change in a bid for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.
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By Victor Keegan  LONDON: It is curious how the globalization of people is happening much faster than the globalization of goods.
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Sir, I hope that all city councillors saw the Country Calendar programme, Saturday January 27. The programme graphically showed the importance of wetlands. Such areas were prolific around our estuaries in 1961. The destruction of our wetlands around Tahunanui, Annesbrook and Stoke horrifies me.