The massive construction waste collapse last month in Shenzhen reflects a wider phenomenon: the waning of the megacity era. Shenzhen became a megacity (population over 10 million) faster than any ...

This chart shows the cities with the most inhabitants in the world.

All cities have gone through the ebb and flow of social distancing and lockdowns, with regulations repealed as cases decline and hurriedly re-imposed when cases return. But few urban residents likely ...

FAYETTEVILLE, GA, UNITED STATES, July 7, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- As cities become decisive arenas for climate ...

A historic migration is under way around the world, from the countryside to swelling urban centers. Many of those new arrivals will find a better life. Others won't. For governments, businesses and ...

This chart shows the distribution of the world's city dwellers by settlement size.

You learn to put up with a lot when you live in Mexico State. The electricity is always going out, and there’s never enough running water. Commutes of two to three hours are common. Kidnapping is a ...

NEW YORK CITY -- Former U.S. president Bill Clinton looked out past the glaring white lights, into the hundreds of faces in the audience, and breathed in deeply. "This is the shape of the modern world ...

Mumbai. Shanghai. Tokyo. Beijing. According to the United Nations, megacities—urban areas with a population of ten million or more—housed approximately 12 percent of urban dwellers as of 2014. Here ...

The New York metropolitan area gobbles up more energy than any other major city in the world, according to a new study that aims to calculate the resources consumed in the world's largest cities. The ...

The modern megacity may have been largely an invention of the West, but it’s increasingly to be found largely in the East. The seven largest megacities (defined as areas of continuous urban ...