Health and infectious diseases have shaped the history of urbanization, but it is cities that will define the future of global health. Four boys look ahead as one flies a kite over houses in the ...

Download PDF file of "Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa" 239kb The GDP of many SSA countries is concentrated, and even reliant, on the productivity of its urban centers. It is rare to transition from ...

June 2012, No. 1 & 2 Vol. XLIX, The Future We Want? Over the last two decades, demographic and economic changes have propelled cities and urban centres to become the principal habitat of humankind.

When it comes to cities and urbanization, it is generally thought that bigger is better. But a pair of recent studies suggests that although industrialized nations may have benefited from larger ...

COVID-19 brought the relation between humans and animals to the core of social and scientific debates. COVID-19 is a zoonotic disease: the coronavirus that causes it crossed species boundaries from ...

This article is one of two published by the UN Chronicle providing commentary by a distinguished scholar on the Secretary-General's Policy Brief: "COVID-19 in an Urban World". Click here to read the ...