The former gubernatorial candidate and Democratic rising star has launched a nonprofit, Fair Count, aimed at making sure Georgia's underrepresented communities get counted in 2020. | Continue reading
In Chicago, juvenile electronic monitoring now comes with a new form of potential surveillance. | Continue reading
My hometown's relationship with the traffic-clogged George Washington Bridge is both an untapped blessing and a backbreaking curse. | Continue reading
It's an effort to ease the strain of tourism in the city center and also spread the wealth around town. | Continue reading
The Congress for New Urbanism once again lists the most-loathed urban freeways in North America—and makes the case for tearing them down. | Continue reading
After a speech surfaced with Pete Buttigieg saying "All Lives Matter" in 2015, racial issues in the South Bend police department, and Buttigieg's role in them, are under scrutiny. | Continue reading
A new study shows that in the neighborhoods where gentrification has taken hold, it has become a crisis, particularly for low-income black households. | Continue reading
Also: More research indicates that gun control works, and London makes it more expensive to drive older cars. | Continue reading
State Senator Scott Wiener’s SB 50 would dramatically rewrite the state’s single-family zoning codes. What's wrong with that? A lot, say opponents. | Continue reading
From the Electrobat to the Nissan Leaf, a century of New York—and the world’s—flirtation with battery-powered cabs. | Continue reading
Cars built before 2006 will pay about $31 per day. | Continue reading
“Policy, law, economics—we tend to think about these things as being neutral, and I’ve learned over time that policy ain’t neutral,” said the Chicago artist. | Continue reading
The most effective measures limit who has legal access to guns rather than what kinds of guns they have access to, a new study finds. | Continue reading
America’s growing geographic divide derives from economic inequality, especially the tremendous gains of the 1 percent. | Continue reading
Why doesn’t the United States have a national system for transit payment? In some countries, a single travel card works to ride any train, bus, subway or tram. | Continue reading
Why doesn’t the United States have a national system for transit payment? In some countries, a single travel card works to ride any train, bus, subway or tram. | Continue reading
Also: Where housing costs devour budgets, and a sweeping Airbnb ban in Madrid. | Continue reading
In a study of Philadelphia neighborhoods, researchers found that an influx of more-affluent newcomers can erode ties between neighbors—or strengthen them. | Continue reading
A significant chunk of Americans spend more than half their incomes on housing. Here’s the data on the severely housing-burdened. | Continue reading
A biweekly tour of the ever-expanding cartographic landscape. | Continue reading
If The Shed remains committed to its lofty goals, Hudson Yards may soon provide real accessibility and a sorely needed sense of inclusion. | Continue reading
Also: A crowdfunding battle to stop a homeless shelter, and the perils of letting your cat outdoors. | Continue reading
A group called Safe Embarcadero turned to crowdfunding to help bankroll a legal fight against Mayor London Breed's planned navigation center for homeless residents. Then came the counterattack. | Continue reading
The racially discriminatory IRS audits are yet another layer of financial burdening added to the long-running narrative of wealth depletion and plundering of black families throughout the South. | Continue reading
The Congress for New Urbanism once again lists the most-loathed urban freeways in North America—and makes the case for tearing them down. | Continue reading
America’s growing geographic divide derives from economic inequality, especially the tremendous gains of the 1 percent. | Continue reading
It's an effort to ease the strain of tourism in the city center and also spread the wealth around town. | Continue reading
"Just opening the door and letting the cat out—there is no excuse for that." | Continue reading
Also: NYC’s next big land grab, and where are the black birders? | Continue reading
The government says it's the way to become "the world’s fossil-free welfare country.” | Continue reading
The city's children may lose out in New York City's next big land grab. | Continue reading
Co-housing, shipping containers, tiny homes, and lots of good old-fashioned investments. San Jose is styling itself a petri dish of potential solutions to a growing housing crisis. | Continue reading
Ride-hailing companies, delivery vehicles, and electric scooters are all vying for a piece of the curb. Here's how cities can manage this increasingly precious resource. | Continue reading
The quickest way to decrease greenhouse gases from transportation is to travel by train and move goods by rail instead of on the road or by air. | Continue reading
Also: How to kill 11,000 parking spaces, and the economic power of arts and culture. | Continue reading
With China no longer accepting many recyclables, U.S. recycling programs hope consumers can change their habits to reduce contamination rates. | Continue reading
And gave me the strength to leave it. | Continue reading
The city plans to systematically strip its center of parking spaces in the coming years, making way for bike lanes, sidewalks, and more trees. | Continue reading
Also: Are planners partly to blame for gentrification? And preserving the legacy of black baseball in Detroit. | Continue reading
"I can’t really just sit and play with dogs all day ’cause I would get in trouble." | Continue reading
Preservationists are finally rallying to save what were once “the heartbeat" of black communities—like Hamtramck Stadium, the home of the Detroit Stars. | Continue reading
In his new book 'Capital City,' Samuel Stein contends that real-estate interests have co-opted urban planning and made planners complicit in gentrification. | Continue reading
Making a whole state a “sanctuary” has protected more immigrants from ICE arrests, new research finds. But there’s one big limitation: Local law enforcement officials. | Continue reading
Also: How to bring back struggling cities, and where Americans feel best about local news. | Continue reading
A new NEA report shows the sector is thriving, although government funding for arts-based education has dwindled. | Continue reading
Charges by the federal housing department outline powerful Facebook tools that enable allegedly sweeping violations of the Fair Housing Act. | Continue reading
They make the trains run on time. | Continue reading