U.S. Census Bureau changed classifications that had been in place since 1910: For more than a century, the bureau had classified areas as urban if they had a population of 2,500 or more. But that ...

A growing number of urban hospitals are reclassifying themselves as both urban and rural to reap financial benefits Congress intended for rural hospitals only, a new study has found. “In 2016, in ...

The workshop discussed how rurality can best be conceptualized and measured in today’s economy and society. The workshop provided background on the origins, rationales, uses, underlying data, and ...

Residents of rural counties have overall worse health outcomes than their urban counterparts. A study published in PLOS Global Public Health by William Weeks at Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, ...

The ongoing growth of a major Indian city has helped experts to create a new way of understanding how ‘urban sprawl’ happens – providing potential to improve people’s lives across the Global South ...

Caregivers living in rural areas reported poorer general and physical health and were more likely to smoke and have obesity than caregivers in urban areas, according to a recent analysis. Researchers ...