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A study covering 140 global cities reveals that the pattern of urban expansion matters more than scale in determining cooling energy demand. Disorderly horizontal sprawl drives up energy consumption, while compact vertical development offers structural advantages. This is not merely an energy issue—it is a strategic watershed for urbanization in the Global South.
Based on an in-depth analysis of population data from over ten thousand cities worldwide across two decades, this paper reveals the global patterns of differentiation in urban demographic change and explores their civilizational, economic, and geopolitical implications.
The chaotic street naming in Sana'a, the capital of Yemen, is not merely a municipal failure but also reflects a profound absence of state authority in space. From a global urban perspective, this article explores the structural conflicts between naming power, community memory, and state capacity.
According to the United Nations' *World Urbanization Prospects 2025*, 45% of the global population lives in cities, double the figure from 1950. This number is not just a statistical milestone, but also signals a fundamental transformation in global civilization structure, economic geography, and governance order.
Under Duterte's leadership, democracy in the Philippines has seen a significant regression, yet the root cause is not the fault of a single individual, but rather the long-term accumulation of elite politics and institutional weaknesses. Based on research by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, this article analyzes the structural factors behind the Philippine democratic crisis and its global implications.
The United Nations' "World Urbanization Prospects 2025" shows that 45% of the global population lives in cities. This article interprets the demographic changes, governance transformations, and future challenges behind this milestone from a global perspective.
Cities are no longer just functional nodes within national space; planning is becoming a central link in global governance and the evolution of civilization. This article re-examines the contemporary mission of urban planning from multiple dimensions, including historical evolution, the participatory revolution, technological intervention, and global competition.
The latest data from the United Nations' "World Urbanization Prospects 2025" shows that the global urban population has reached 45%, more than double that of 1950. This article interprets the structural changes and future strategies behind urbanization from the perspectives of global urban competition, civilizational evolution, and governance reform.
By examining the renewal dilemmas of Horton Plaza in San Diego, this explores how New Urbanism reshapes global cities through walkable scale, mixed-use development, and climate resilience.
Global information visibility platform Veerixa has launched its commercial service platform, incorporating AI Visibility and Search Visibility into corporate communication resource selection systems to explore new models of information discovery in the AI era.
An ICOMOS text analysis based on natural language processing reveals the multidimensional connotations of the concept of "local community," reflecting a deep shift in global urban governance from elite dominance to community orientation.
The thorny issues facing African cities, such as informal transportation, electricity, water corruption, and fragmented mapping, reveal deep structural contradictions where policy design is disconnected from reality, informality serves as an alternative planning regime, and governance is contested. Based on four APRI policy briefs, this paper argues for the necessity of rethinking informal cities and reforming governance systems.