A new bill proposal allots $15 million to help local governments modernize their digital services. Is this the lifeline cities need? | Continue reading
Also: The power of privileged neighborhoods, and the women of the Bauhaus. | Continue reading
A new study shows that growing up in an affluent neighborhood brings “compounding privileges”—especially for white residents. | Continue reading
A roundup of reads to mark the 100th birthday of history's most influential art and design school. | Continue reading
Walter Gropius’s lofty rhetoric about equality fell short of the essentialist differences that the art school’s founders perceived between the sexes (and imposed on women at the school). | Continue reading
That's the question advocates are asking thanks to new salary data. And they hope unanswered questions will stall approvals for the new campus. | Continue reading
The Frauenticket offers a discount that reflects the gender pay gap. | Continue reading
Changing suburban demographics and politics may decide the Georgia capital's transportation future. | Continue reading
Also: Manhattan’s opulent new mini-city, and how density can deter growth. | Continue reading
Cities have a key role to play in confronting climate change, and it starts taking back the streets from the private car. | Continue reading
A new video from Streetfilms highlights the head-scratching attacks employed by bike-lane foes. | Continue reading
Marcel Breuer's 1966 Whitney Museum was one of his finest works. The Bauhaus-trained designer would bring something similar to the South just before his death. | Continue reading
New York's new mega-development, with luxe skyscrapers, a high-end mall, and the interactive sculpture "Vessel," has opened. | Continue reading
The massive fines levied against the investment funds have been interpreted as a “declaration of war” from Mayor Ada Colau, who wants more affordable housing. | Continue reading
A new report examines why the largest U.S. metros actually face population decline. | Continue reading
Four participants in the Youth Climate Strike movement tell us what's important to them. | Continue reading
Also: Milwaukee’s “sewer socialists,” and the affordable home crisis continues. | Continue reading
New York City’s monthly pass hike reveals that the value of a bus or subway ride depends on who’s riding. | Continue reading
When the city began to fully embrace its decaying Bauhaus architecture in the '80s, it de-emphasized the styles that came before which were more in touch with Tel Aviv's Arab/Palestinian roots. | Continue reading
The slick new Kaplan Institute at Chicago’s IIT is a direct descendant of the Bauhaus. It is also, in some ways, everything the Bauhaus was not. | Continue reading
As they await statewide action to eliminate cash bail, city council members look to reduce the financial burden on families of incarcerated people. | Continue reading
It’s a perfectly Miesian second act for something built for utility. Residents in Montreal's Nuns' Island quickly took to the building’s unusual organization upon its reopening. | Continue reading
After 20 years of planning, Duke University torpedoed the Research Triangle's signature transit project. What went wrong? | Continue reading
Wyoming Fares Best; Nevada the Worst. | Continue reading
The city stands apart for electing three socialist mayors, but their work on infrastructure, parks, and housing looks much like what’s expected of mayors today. | Continue reading
Women, especially if they are Hispanic, may be at most financial risk from the automation of jobs says a new report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. | Continue reading
Also: How the Bauhaus kept things weird, and #trashtag cleans up. | Continue reading
Should these free-range vehicles come in from the wild? | Continue reading
An exhibition at the Elmhurst Art Museum reveals the Bauhaus as a tangle of contradictions. | Continue reading
The arrival of the TD Centre's twin office towers in the late 1960s signaled a dramatic and permanent change in the city’s prevailing architectural style, courtesy Mies van der Rohe, an architect nearing the end of a prolific career. | Continue reading
Many imitators of the famous art school’s output have missed the surreal, sensual, irrational, and instinctual spirit that drove its creativity. | Continue reading
On Episode 3 of the podcast Technopolis, we wrestle with the legacy of Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb on how startups engage with government. | Continue reading
Also: Learning and unlearning the Bauhaus legacy, and why the Democrats chose Milwaukee. | Continue reading
Our differences stem more from who we are than what we want in our communities. | Continue reading
With their traveling project, the Savvy Contemporary collective hopes to examine power relations in the context of globalization and the impact of these on design and ideas. | Continue reading
Ben Thorp Brown’s film about the Walter Gropius-designed Fagus Factory shows the changing nature of work, as evidenced by its now-automated operations with traditional craftsmen work alongside machines. | Continue reading
“I don’t think the Bauhaus converted these people, I think these people kind of converted the Bauhaus.” | Continue reading
Investing in cultural cohesion and preservation can aid in the recovery of cities devastated by war or natural disasters, says a new World Bank report. | Continue reading
Slashes to Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, housing assistance, and other domestic needs would require states and cities to pick up the slack. | Continue reading
The social media challenge #trashtag had people across the globe cleaning up beaches, parks, rivers—and urging their friends to get in on the action. | Continue reading
Citizen, an free app that alerts users to nearby crime, launches in a city that already has a reputation for urban violence. | Continue reading
Also: Baltimore’s controversial crime tracker, and how to plug into your local music scene. | Continue reading
African Americans worry that Pittsburgh’s new gun control proposals could leave them more vulnerable to racist and state-sponsored violence. | Continue reading
The small city in eastern Germany might seem an unlikely spot for artistic and social revolution, but it has nonetheless found an unexpected way to continue a tradition of experimental design—not through building, but through a form of creative destruction. | Continue reading
It seems remarkable that the hugely-influential design school was only open for 14 years and yet it is equally remarkable that it lasted that long. This was almost entirely down to the skills and determination of its leader, Walter Gropius. | Continue reading
A special series that reflects on the Bauhaus school on its 100th anniversary—from the roots of its ideas to how its concepts impacted an impure world. | Continue reading
Flashband starts with speed-dating for musicians, and ends with a packed venue and a lineup of brand-new bands. | Continue reading