Sustainable management and exploitation policies as well as suitable conservation and
mitigation strategies are mandatory to preserve cultural heritage and to reduce threats …

Why do cultures change? The present work examined cultural change in eight cultural-level
markers, or correlates, of individualism in the United States, all of which increased over the …

Like sprawl itself, writing about sprawl is scattered in a vast multidisciplinary literature. In this
paper we provide a map of what is increasingly known about urban sprawl in emerging …

The importance of accurate and timely information describing the nature and extent of land
resources and changes over time is increasing, especially in rapidly growing metropolitan …

Background Extreme heat events (EHEs) are increasing in frequency in large US cities and
are responsible for a greater annual number of climate-related fatalities, on average, than …

Cities and regions in different political contexts might play different roles in building
communities, but when the cities shrink, they share common elements of what can be …

Decades of economic prosperity in the United States have redefined the American dream.
Paul Knox explores how extreme versions of this dream have changed the American …

Suburbs are becoming increasingly diverse as they continue to comprise larger portions of
the metropolitan population and employment. Former perceptions of suburban uniformity are …

Urbanization induces detrimental effects on the eco-environment that are beginning to be
extensively described. However, the adoption of suitable indicators and reliable methods …

More than five decades have passed since Charles Tiebout wrote his seminal 1956 paper,
often cited as the classic apologetic for locally based systems of metropolitan governance …