An international roundup of bus, train, and subway seat designs based on CityLab’s rules for a commuter-friendly textile. | Continue reading
In defiance of the principles of "broken windows policing," most serious urban violence is concentrated among a small network of people—less than 1 percent of a city’s population. | Continue reading
The Mayan Train would link cities and tourist sites with rural areas and environmentally sensitive rainforests. | Continue reading
Also: Americans distrust the 2020 Census, and the Amazon pushback is also about immigrants. | Continue reading
Around the World Day of Social Justice, we should consider why cities pay poverty wages, and why 28 states can preempt local efforts to raise the minimum wage. | Continue reading
“Signing off on a $79 credit-card bill—I think that can be done at a different level than the mayor. But until we can get things in order, that’s how it goes.” | Continue reading
Across political persuasions, a majority of Americans are convinced that adding a citizen question will render the 2020 count inaccurate. | Continue reading
In the wake of the HQ2 cancellation in Queens, Amazon’s connections to federal immigration enforcement are drawing scrutiny and criticism. | Continue reading
Pittsburgh could be the bellwether city in Pennsylvania, defying state law to pass gun control ordinances, but first it has to get past its own district attorney. | Continue reading
“It would be to the benefit of the people who live in urban areas to have 50 gun control lawsuits at the same time”—Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto. | Continue reading
Also: The case against the Obama Presidential Center, and Berlin’s ideas for a housing revolution. | Continue reading
The share of VC "first financings" going to women-founded startups tripled between 2005 and 2017, to 21 percent. | Continue reading
A judge has ruled that a lawsuit brought by Chicago preservationists can proceed, dealing a blow to the former president’s plans to build his center in Jackson Park. | Continue reading
In costly cities like San Francisco, open positions far exceed nearby job-seekers. | Continue reading
Berliners are proposing some radical ideas to overhaul the housing market, and many have broad public support. | Continue reading
A new poll finds that far from being more moderate than urban or rural voters, suburbanites are actually more partisan. | Continue reading
Also: The curious politics of a mega-mall, and a red-state YIMBY bill. | Continue reading
Environmentalists and officials are concerned about contamination of drinking water and other harmful impacts. | Continue reading
The car-dependent suburb it’ll be built in wants to greenlight Royalmount against the city government’s wishes but it needs them to pay for the public infrastructure. | Continue reading
How do you sell pro-housing zoning reform in conservative Utah? | Continue reading
Yet affluent white neighborhoods and high-poverty black ones are outliers. | Continue reading
Also: The car loan trap, and a visual history of the public library. | Continue reading
A visual exploration of how a critical piece of social infrastructure came to be. | Continue reading
It has long been a problem, but the recent booms in tourism and real estate are furthering the destruction of Lisbon’s tile heritage. | Continue reading
Some chefs are trying to ensure more city residents share the food plenty. | Continue reading
The arrival of HQ2 was set to shake up the borough’s real estate market, driving up rents and spurring displacement. | Continue reading
For low-income buyers, new predatory lending techniques may make it easier to get behind the wheel, and harder to escape a debt trap. | Continue reading
Also: Unpacking New York’s ejection of Amazon, and a short history of Germany’s beloved Schwebebahn. | Continue reading
Welcome to Alcona County, Michigan, where retirees are staying on the job to plow the roads, fight fires, and keep the town running. | Continue reading
Members of Congress hope to pass laws to help border-adjacent property owners who may be displaced through eminent domain if Trump’s border wall plans proceed. | Continue reading
The Schwebebahn, Wuppertal's Prussian-era train has a unique design: Its wheels sit atop the singular rail, and the trains hang below it, connected by supports that look like the Iron Giant’s knuckles. | Continue reading
Soon after the photos were taken between 1940 and 1950, the city started to tear down Black Bottom, a 20-year process that would scatter its residents, most of them working class renters, but many with deep, multi-generational ties to the area. | Continue reading
In the 1800s, candy helped make Boston an industrial powerhouse. Candy hearts have been a lasting legacy of that era, though their future is less certain. | Continue reading
One of Baltimore’s foremost urban scholars, Lawrence Brown, says the solutions to the city’s inequitable financing problems need to be as radical as the policies that segregated Baltimore in the first place. | Continue reading
The mega-company has bucked dealing reasonably with New York City, Seattle, and any community that asks them to pay for its freight. | Continue reading
Some New York lawmakers are celebrating their victory in driving Amazon out of new York. And they have plans to thwart the next bidding war. | Continue reading
Also: The cities with the most singles, and the opioid crisis’s rural-urban divide. | Continue reading
"The factors that put people in communities at higher risk are are not spatially random.” | Continue reading
The 300-seat Coal Bin opened in January 1970, the same year Ontario dropped its strict rules around men and women drinking together in pubs. The following year, the drinking age was reduced to 18. | Continue reading
Part cultural tour, part social activism, a project called Dissolving Boundaries uses Jerusalem's public transportation as a stage for examining the city’s stark divisions. | Continue reading
Some metros have more single men than women, or the reverse. | Continue reading
Also: The company shaping American police policy, and Boston City Hall at 50. | Continue reading
It might bring economic development, but scaling back the state's planned link between San Francisco and Los Angeles does a disservice to California's transportation needs. | Continue reading
These couples found love in the gig economy. | Continue reading
Because of the Tate Modern’s viewing platform, some Neo Bankside residents complain that images of them in their own homes have turned up on Instagram. Some are so upset that they have come close to avoiding their apartments altogether. | Continue reading
If you like long walks on the beach and swoon over unrequited love, you probably won't like dating in Washington, D.C. | Continue reading
To resolve Trump’s impasse, many lawmakers have proposed boosting surveillance technology to create a virtual barrier. | Continue reading