Luis Bettencourt

Aerial view of people socializing on Chicago's Riverwalk

How do cities impact mental health? A new study finds lower rates of depression

COVID 2025

COVID 2025: How the pandemic is changing our world

Luis Bettencourt

COVID 2025: How COVID-19 will challenge and change cities, with Luís Bettencourt

Times Square quarantine

Coronavirus is hitting larger cities harder. How should they respond?

Luis Bettencourt

Saving Our Cities By Studying A Million Neighborhoods With Luis Bettencourt (Ep. 34)

A UChicago scholar searches for the processes underlying sustainable cities by studying a million neighborhoods.

Fast-growing informal settlement in Africa

In fight against global poverty, researchers map fast-growing informal settlements in Africa

Architecture

UChicago and UN to host global symposium on sustainable cities and neighborhoods

Moscow, Russia

Urban October at University of Chicago to focus on urgent challenges facing global cities

Chicago street

Why a 1925 book is still relevant to urban sociology

Galápagos Islands

Urban development in the Galápagos Islands