The problems of urban sprawl have long been recognized. The classic response to sprawl
has been compact settlements of one form or another. Yet the profession's modern origins …

Following formative work in the 1970s, disappearance in the 1980s, and reemergence in the
1990s, a chronological review shows that the past decade has witnessed increasing interest …

Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have
made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce …

Humanity has just crossed a major landmark in its history with the majority of people now
living in cities. Cities have long been known to be society's predominant engine of …

The areas of energy, water and food policy have numerous interwoven concerns ranging
from ensuring access to services, to environmental impacts to price volatility. These issues …

Data from urban metabolism studies from eight metropolitan regions across five continents,
conducted in various years since 1965, are assembled in consistent units and compared …

The natural environmental degradation is specifically challenging in rapid urbanization
areas where social economic development needs to swallow large amounts of resources …

Green areas in the urban environment can contribute to the mitigation of the Urban Heat
Island. In a context of climate change, with the expected increase in temperature, dryness …

The goal of the circular economy (CE) is to transition from today's take-make-waste linear
pattern of production and consumption to a circular system in which the societal value of …

In management literature,“ecosystems” are increasingly invoked for improvement of
environmental sustainability and the circular economy (CE), but there is conceptual as well …