The Port of Oslo aims to slash emissions 85 percent by 2030: “It’s what is necessary if we are going to reach the Paris Agreement.” | Continue reading
Can “Mobility as a Service” apps nudge drivers to adopt transit and micromobility modes? Not on their own. | Continue reading
An excerpt from the new book "Newcomers," documents the early history of the anti-gentrification and back-to-the-city movements. | Continue reading
Also: How cities and states can stop the incentives madness, and reviving the utopian dreams of Tony Garnier. | Continue reading
Are navigation apps creating more problems than they’re solving? | Continue reading
Not only do incentives have a minor effect on where companies locate, but most of the tax revenue from the new jobs gets eaten up by additional costs, says economist Timothy Bartik. | Continue reading
Decades after Kenya shook off colonialism, in their approach to urban design, Nairobi's elite show a similar classist disdain for ordinary Africans. | Continue reading
Also: D.C.’s hard road to safer streets, and lessons from an old map of Denver. | Continue reading
What will living in a carbon-neutral world feel like? Journalist Per Grankvist is going to try to explain. | Continue reading
Before there was Le Corbusier, there was Tony Garnier, who reshaped his hometown of Lyon, France. | Continue reading
As the District lagged on its Vision Zero goals, local bike and pedestrian advocates turned traffic fatalities into a rallying cry, and got results. | Continue reading
To improve their social and psychological resilience to disaster, experts recommend that individuals be informed, volunteer if possible, and stay socially connected. | Continue reading
As a newcomer to this fast-changing city, I needed a 19th century pictorial map to help me find my place. | Continue reading
Also: How Seattle’s city council race became the Amazon election, and how communities can build psychological resilience to disaster. | Continue reading
The Port of Oslo aims to slash emissions 85 percent by 2030: “It’s what is necessary if we are going to reach the Paris Agreement.” | Continue reading
The first European explorer known to enter New York Harbor didn't manage to get the name he gave it, "Nouvelle Angoulême," to stick. | Continue reading
Washington, D.C.'s RFK Stadium is taking up a very desirable plot of federal land—and no one can agree what to do with it. | Continue reading
From Jersey City to Seattle, tech companies exercised their influence at the city level. | Continue reading
On November 8 and 9, costumed black people with replica guns will march across Louisiana reenacting one of the largest slave rebellions in U.S. history. | Continue reading
Also: The changing demographics of America’s suburbs, and the slave revolt reenactment taking over New Orleans. | Continue reading
The Karstadt department store in Kreuzberg was once an architectural marvel. But local officials say a new plan to bring it back is all wrong. | Continue reading
On November 8 and 9, costumed black people with guns will be marching across Louisiana reenacting one of the largest slave rebellions in United States history. | Continue reading
To improve their social and psychological resilience to disaster, experts recommend that individuals be informed, volunteer if possible, and stay socially connected. | Continue reading
After air service shifted to bigger cities with hub airports, those areas saw economic gains, while smaller and mid-sized metros lost out. | Continue reading
The changes in the demographic makeup of America’s suburbs are so profound that some urbanists are calling for a new sociology of suburbia. | Continue reading
Votes in Virginia, Kentucky, and Mississippi all show how the suburbs are getting more Democratic, while rural areas get Republican. | Continue reading
A biweekly tour of the ever-expanding cartographic landscape. | Continue reading
Also: Smashing the great pumpkin-waste problem, and California’s wildfires are not a morality tale. | Continue reading
Since the 1990s, transparent plastic bags have been promoted as a security solution after school shootings and terror attacks. But their true effects are hazy. | Continue reading
The environmental case for smashing pumpkins. | Continue reading
Norway is building the world's tallest timber structure, but it has yet to build the supply chain for a new construction industry. | Continue reading
Housing experts and advocates say that the largest barrier to housing is not money; it's political will. | Continue reading
The Golden State's struggle to survive wildfires and other cataclysms is not a morality tale. | Continue reading
Also: The sum of all 2020 Census fears, and how airline deregulation contributed to America’s regional inequality. | Continue reading
After air service shifted to bigger cities with hub airports, those areas saw economic gains, while smaller and mid-sized metros lost out. | Continue reading
After a massacre decimated the Wiyot Tribe in 1860, driving them from Humboldt Bay, the California city of Eureka has done what once seemed impossible: They gave the land back. | Continue reading
The first online U.S. census faces many threats, from cyberattacks and fraudsters to security fears and undercount risks. | Continue reading
The law protects your right to loiter, but the line between "hanging out" and "committing a crime" is blurry. | Continue reading
Cities need to work at encouraging voter turnout for local elections. Even small increases in participation can transform the political landscape. | Continue reading
Also: How “Blade Runner” and sci-fi made everything dystopian, and Donald Trump was never a real New Yorker. | Continue reading
Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu and writer Hanif Abdurraqib examined race during separate tours of the South. Their reports are different. | Continue reading
Charles Booth documented status in 19th-century London from the wealthy to the "semi-criminal." | Continue reading
"If we get this right, it doesn’t have to be partisan." | Continue reading
Norway is building the world's tallest timber structure, but it has yet to build the supply chain for a new construction industry. | Continue reading
A new study suggests vehicular travel affects children's ability to navigate their neighborhood and connect to their community. | Continue reading
The central library in Helsinki is a monument to the Nordic model of civic engagement. | Continue reading
A new study gives evidence that Jane Jacobs was right about the particular dynamic and innovative quality of dense, urban neighborhoods. | Continue reading
Science fiction, especially 'Blade Runner,' has spawned so many dystopias that dystopia itself has become banal. What we need is a new utopianism that embraces the city. | Continue reading