What has been learned, scientists say, will have a far-reaching effect on urban disasters in the future.

Bubonic plague in early modern Russia: public health and urban disaster.

So he is one of the handful of officials who gather, grimly, at urban disasters.

It was, thankfully, just a big-city stink, not an urban disaster.

The fire, which killed 72 people including many government officials, was at the time the worst urban disaster in American history.

I cry out for a greener pasture, To help me out of my urban disaster.

Robert's story is as complicated as America's urban disaster.

What's more, urban disasters may provide clues to some great puzzles of economics.

The survivors, blanketed in the gray mist of urban disaster, headed north and east.

There's a new buzz coming to a Bronx neighborhood that stands on the cusp between urban disaster and revitalization.