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How animal cameras are capturing Seattle’s wild side
In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, researchers are peeking into the lives of animals who are trying to make it in the big city. Using strategically placed cameras, they’re trying to answer how urban life affects wild animals…
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In ‘The Future of Cities,’ innovative responses to urban issues
More than 31 cities around the globe -- including Tokyo, Delhi, Cairo and Mexico City -- are considered megacities, with populations of more than 10 million people. As the number of city dwellers increases, so do problems like overcrowding, pollution,…
How the economics of urbanization changes between rich and poor nations
Insights about the economics of cities have been developed largely from studies in the United States and Europe. But do these insights apply with equal force in the developing world, where in coming years the majority of the world's urban…
Overworked and leisure starved, skilled workers move to city center
Moving closer to city centers is a time-saver for better-educated, better-paid "leisure losers."…
China's young migrant workers are the driving force behind the country's rapid urbanization, but they struggle to build families while working demanding factory jobs. Photographer Jia Daitengfei has documented these struggles with a series of portraits, taken on the very…
China's urban population has exploded in the last 20 years and more than 200 cities in China are expected to have a population of more than 1 million people by 2025.
As more young Mongolians abandon the traditional nomadic lifestyle of their families, older generations worry the culture of Mongolian nomads could be threatened.
