Two UX designers are making art based on a shared frustration: Government tech ideas that don’t incorporate people into the process. | Continue reading
Eight years after banning cities and towns from building high-speed internet networks, state lawmakers unanimously reversed course. | Continue reading
Nostalgia and anxiety about community change often make residents fret about threats to the spiritual essence of a place. Here's what they're really saying. | Continue reading
It's a response to community pushback over a proposed Embarcadero navigation center. | Continue reading
Proximity is the single strongest driver of connections in online dating, a new study finds. | Continue reading
Before his death, an American historian laser-scanned Notre-Dame Cathedral. Now his work could be the key to restoring the building. | Continue reading
Also: Amazon’s slow retreat from Seattle, and the geography of online dating. | Continue reading
Mimes and masked wrestlers have pushed the country's lawmakers to consider major national traffic safety legislation. | Continue reading
Proximity is the single strongest driver of connections in online dating, a new study finds. | Continue reading
Amazon has long fancied itself an urban enterprise. Is its pivot to smaller communities a way to avoid messy politics? | Continue reading
Research shows nearly one in five childhood asthma cases were caused by traffic-related air pollution. | Continue reading
A blaze consumed the roof and spire of the 13th-century Gothic cathedral in Paris. But "the worst has been avoided." | Continue reading
Like the Cubans who came in the Mariel boatlift, most immigrants aren’t criminals. The Trump proposal to let them into U.S. cities shows he knows that. | Continue reading
Also: Cities rise in influence and power, and mapping where pollution hurts children most. | Continue reading
A growing coalition of Democrats are trying to turn the Earned Income Tax Credit into a monthly refund. | Continue reading
Cities are challenging their invisibility in global governance structures, like the United Nations, by forging new alliances to influence international policy. | Continue reading
No wonder Donald Trump doesn't think much of Mount Vernon: George Washington's practical-minded estate was built to convey humility. | Continue reading
Also: The hidden horror of Hudson Yards, and a buddy-cop novel about gentrification. | Continue reading
The Municipalists, a debut novel by Seth Fried, has something to say about the way we talk about urbanism. | Continue reading
Florida was home to most of the remaining greyhound tracks left in the U.S. But Amendment 13 banning dog racing, passed last year and the tracks are closing. | Continue reading
In Spring 2018, news of the water crisis in South Africa ricocheted around the world—then the story disappeared. So what happened? | Continue reading
Manhattan’s luxury mega-project was financed in part by an investor visa program that was intended to help rural and distressed urban neighborhoods. | Continue reading
It’s not because the company actually makes any money. | Continue reading
The Manhattan’s luxury mega-project was financed in part by an investor visa program that was intended to help rural and distressed urban neighborhoods. | Continue reading
SARSAI, which makes streets safer for African children going to school, has won the inaugural WRI Ross Prize for Cities. | Continue reading
The Rockefeller Foundation’s global climate-resilience initiative will shutter by summer. But cities say the work must go on. | Continue reading
Also: Can a cultural plan really save a city’s art scene? And what local papers mean for mayoral races. | Continue reading
Economic researchers propose “heartland visas” to channel new immigrants to slow-growing or shrinking places in the U.S. | Continue reading
A study of 11 California newspapers shows that when cities have fewer reporters, political competition and voter turnout suffers. | Continue reading
The law demands the city to install protected bicycle infrastructure on streets with planned upgrades. | Continue reading
The law demands the city to install protected bicycle infrastructure on streets with planned upgrades | Continue reading
Many cities are drafting top-down documents that aim to celebrate and protect local culture. But too often, these plans lack teeth. | Continue reading
Also: Floating cities aren’t the answer, and weird ways to get a free ride. | Continue reading
A new report and accompanying map finds extreme gentrification in a few cities, but the dominant trend—particularly in the suburbs—is the concentration of low-income population. | Continue reading
Every major component of a downsizer’s lifestyle is influenced, including food, transportation, and consumption of goods and services. | Continue reading
Should UN-Habitat—the UN agency responsible for sustainable urban development—be toying with a moonshot response to climate change? | Continue reading
The Netherlands recently let train travelers ride free if they carried a book. Here are other strange offers that covered the cost of train or bus tickets. | Continue reading
The cherry trees look beautiful, but daily flooding at high tide and crumbling infrastructure threaten the Tidal Basin. | Continue reading
Also: Two states plan to help homeless college students, and how families with kids drive suburban segregation. | Continue reading
After a fatal crash involving a bicyclist, the city tried banning private cars in Mount Royal Park. But opposition to the program was fierce. | Continue reading
The old divide between family-friendly suburbs and childless cities is fading. The new divide is within the suburbs themselves. | Continue reading
A new book tells the surprising history of anarchists, utopians, and progressives in the American suburbs. | Continue reading
Photographer Patrick Wright carried his camera on the city’s rapid transit system for four years, taking photos of over a thousand riders. | Continue reading
More low-income students, some homeless, now enroll in college than middle-income ones. New legislation in California and Washington state aims to meet their needs. | Continue reading
The recently published plans for Olympic Village fits into the suburb's vision for a more equitable future, but similar ambitions for the London 2012 Games are cause for skepticism. | Continue reading
Also: Fort Lee beyond Bridgegate, and how to design an esports arena. | Continue reading
Home to nearly 300,000 people, the West African city is already seeing houses destroyed, streets flooded, and crops killed by encroaching saltwater due to climate change. | Continue reading
An architect working on Philadelphia’s planned Fusion Arena explains how to design a facility for pro gaming. | Continue reading