When cities like New York and San Francisco pay late on contracts to homeless services providers, vulnerable people pay the price. | Continue reading
Also: It’s snow vs. parking in Minneapolis, and how Marvel packs a universe into NYC. | Continue reading
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is a massive mythos with the Big Apple at its center. Here’s what Spider-Man, Iron Man, and other superheroes say about their city. | Continue reading
Sorry, drivers. Record-breaking February snowfall has forced the Twin Cities to remove more than a third of their street parking. | Continue reading
“Something’s gone terribly wrong in the last ten years.” | Continue reading
Also: Mapping the global mosquito invasion, and is there a future for the Newseum? | Continue reading
Suburban neighborhoods easily outperformed their urban counterparts from 1970 to 2010, according to a new study. | Continue reading
After years of financial struggle, the Washington, D.C., museum devoted to a free press will sell its building to Johns Hopkins and seek a new home. | Continue reading
Over the next 60 years, climate change will enable mosquitoes to thrive in more places around the world, according to a new study. | Continue reading
A biweekly tour of the ever-expanding cartographic landscape. | Continue reading
The narrative of big-spending government programs isn’t quite right. The New Deal took great strides to encourage private investment. | Continue reading
Also: Mapping micro-segregation, and a GM town faces the end of manufacturing. | Continue reading
New York may soon join cities like Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington. | Continue reading
You can get a good amount of exercise just going about your day. | Continue reading
“Segregation is not just about where you live, but what you do." | Continue reading
Only in New York City do people yell when politicians screw up by riding transit, and by failing to ride transit. | Continue reading
Refurbished buses in the city of Pune offer something local women need: a clean, safe place to use the restroom away from home. | Continue reading
The Japanese architect is credited with deepening the cultural exchange between East and West. | Continue reading
It wasn’t long ago that GM’s Hamtramck plant was being hailed as a Detroit comeback story. Now it’s closing, and the town around it faces the end of its manufacturing era. | Continue reading
A Twin Cities mall invited people and pets to walk indoors each weekend—but the event’s popularity was also its undoing. | Continue reading
Despite the fact that Chicago has been bleeding off African-American residents at record rates, the city will still elect a black mayor for the first time since 1983. | Continue reading
James Baldwin, Ousmane Sembène, Maya Angelou, and the dynamic discussions they provoke help a young writer find her tribe at a film screening series in Nigeria. | Continue reading
Deborah Berke sits down with CityLab to talk about the Midwest, Modern design, and #MeToo. | Continue reading
Also: A simple fix for better bus lanes, and closing in on Trump's real estate assessments. | Continue reading
"Tactical transit lanes" might be little more than a coat of red paint, but they can go a long way toward improving commutes. | Continue reading
Toledo, Ohio, just voted to give Lake Erie legal rights against polluters, but a federal lawsuit has already been filed challenging the measure's constitutionality. | Continue reading
After years of failed federal projects, First Nations people are clamoring for greater autonomy and more concrete solutions. Many believe that starts with individual land rights. | Continue reading
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez grilled Michael Cohen on the real estate dealings of Donald Trump. Cohen’s replies may open access to Trump's elusive tax returns. | Continue reading
Also: Black cities ain’t going nowhere, and the powerhouses driving the world economy. | Continue reading
A new Brookings Institution report explains how majority-black cities have been increasing in numbers despite a stagnated overall black population in the U.S. | Continue reading
It’s not nation states or even cities, but mega-regions—combinations of multiple metro areas—that are the real forces powering the global economy. | Continue reading
“My first visual reaction is: That is a lot of white people with dogs.” | Continue reading
The city will spend $2 billion per year on expanding bus and rail, boosting frequency, and getting ahead of population growth. | Continue reading
The gambling mecca is jamming countless new technologies in public spaces. Calculating risks will come later. | Continue reading
Also: Turning golf courses into housing, and a card game for urban planning. | Continue reading
'Ghost apartments' are adding to the country's housing woes. | Continue reading
New research highlights the link between exposure to crime and chronic absenteeism rates for high school students. | Continue reading
In one of the world's most dense and expensive cities, the local government has said it will reclaim part of a historic golf club for new housing. | Continue reading
Each card in "Imaginable Guidelines" is illustrated by a local artist and represents one aspect of urban design, ranging from street vendors to sidewalk dimensions, in order to give players a shared vocabulary and base of knowledge with which to talk about their city. | Continue reading
Also: We started a podcast, and Sidewalk Labs gets pushback in Toronto. | Continue reading
Take a look at the trains that will modernize France’s rail fleet and prepare the national provider to take on its first-ever competitors. | Continue reading
In our first episode of our new podcast, we ask: Why did venture capitalists pour all of this money into urban tech? Was there some master plan to transform our cities? Or is it all ... random? | Continue reading
After the setback of Amazon's HQ2 search, economic development needs to focus on what works and what benefits everyone. | Continue reading
Dismayed by your city’s lack of affordable housing? Want to work to counter decades of ‘urban renewal? Consider volunteering at your local public housing agency. | Continue reading
The podcast from CityLab on what needs to change in Silicon Valley and in City Hall to make sure tech is helping solve more problems than it creates. | Continue reading
A resistance campaign with echoes of the Amazon HQ2 backlash in Queens is gaining momentum in Canada. | Continue reading
Also: The wide world of transit seat covers, and a page from the real Green Book. | Continue reading
Why is an online mattress company selling prefab mobile homes? | Continue reading