The city’s most polarizing building is now officially middle-aged and a couple of fans have reproduced a pin that was given out during its opening week celebrations in 1969. | Continue reading
Also: How the Green New Deal could retrofit suburbs, and Edinburgh wants a tourist tax. | Continue reading
There’s a reason why climate-change legislation failed in the past. Environmental-justice advocates don’t want the Green New Deal to repeat those mistakes. | Continue reading
Researchers find a positive association between storm damage and the likelihood of gentrification over the following 10 years. | Continue reading
Too many places seem determined to convince people they're exactly like someplace else. | Continue reading
In many states, lawmakers are doing their best to reverse, repeal, and restrict ballot initiatives that swept to victory in November. | Continue reading
The original New Deal included a bold attempt to rethink suburbia. We can still learn from it. | Continue reading
Also: The week Seattle stood still, and a lesson in bike-friendly design. | Continue reading
Scotland’s capital could charge travelers £2 per day. | Continue reading
Public libraries are one of the most trusted institutions, and they want to make sure everyone has access to the information cities are collecting and sharing. | Continue reading
Some programs offer them parking spaces, toilets, showers, and security. | Continue reading
3D printing was expected to transform architecture and construction, but uptake has been slow. Could that be changing? | Continue reading
The Seattle General Strike was a spectacular show of force for the city’s workers. | Continue reading
The state's governor has pledged to eliminate a property-tax dodge used by big-box stores. | Continue reading
Also: Where does historic preservation go from here? And Anthony Davis Is the NBA’s Amazon. | Continue reading
The tools and approaches used in the preservation field are increasingly out of date, and we risk alienating those who should share our cause. | Continue reading
The policy has proven surprisingly difficult to challenge thanks to Hong Kong’s chronic affordable housing shortage and powerful real estate industry. | Continue reading
The barriers between rich and poor in Kenya's capital city are growing. | Continue reading
Despite the volume of research on the misuse of business incentives, more than eight in 10 U.S. mayors still believe they’re good policy. | Continue reading
A new study argues that "universal car access" could lift more Americans out of poverty. | Continue reading
The way cities clamored to win over NBA New Orleans Pelicans All-Star forward Anthony Davis is eerily reminiscent of how cities pursued the Amazon HQ2 deal, and we’ll probably have to get used to this. | Continue reading
Also: Why mayors keep offering tax breaks, and measuring ‘anti-social capital.’ | Continue reading
From refugee encampments to central cities, urban poverty prevents a big challenge for designers of child-friendly spaces. | Continue reading
Despite the volume of research on the misuse of business incentives, more than eight in 10 U.S. mayors still believe they’re good policy. | Continue reading
A biweekly tour of the ever-expanding cartographic landscape. | Continue reading
Also: Decriminalizing fare evasion, and the real link between immigration and crime. | Continue reading
In his State of the Union speech, President Trump again argued for a border wall by insisting that immigration represents a threat to public safety. Research suggests otherwise. | Continue reading
Washington D.C. voted to decriminalize fare evasion. But the city needs to go further. | Continue reading
It’s not resistance to development that's the matter, but rather the inability to match different scales of “back yard” locality with the scales of functional geography. | Continue reading
Trump’s mention of cities was not a particularly positive one. But it’s more than other recent presidents have said in their addresses. | Continue reading
Building more affordable housing units will increase demand for the wares that fill houses. And someone will need to make them. | Continue reading
A bill from Nevada Senator Catherine Cortez Mastro would restore a Dodd-Frank rule requiring banks to be more transparent about their lending practices. | Continue reading
Building more affordable housing units will increase demand for the wares that fill houses. And someone will need to make them. | Continue reading
The U.K.’s Environment Agency warns of a grim national rubbish crisis if the country leaves the E.U. without a Brexit deal. | Continue reading
At a Bay Area summit, devotees evangelized about the world-changing potential of electric scooters and other mobility devices. Safety didn't get as much attention. | Continue reading
The finding of a new study—that upzoning didn’t quickly increase development in areas of Chicago—shouldn’t make zoning reform any less of a priority. | Continue reading
Also: How pollution affects school performance, and Paris parks loosen up. | Continue reading
Building more affordable housing units will increase demand for the wares that fill houses. And someone will need to make them. | Continue reading
At a Bay Area summit, devotees evangelized about the world-changing potential of electric scooters and other mobility devices. Safety didn't get as much attention. | Continue reading
Bikes, games, picnics, and dogs are finally getting a warmer welcome in the French capital’s famously stringent parks and gardens. | Continue reading
Also: Heating violations leave residents in the cold, and for good Modernism, visit Queens. | Continue reading
When students switch to schools downwind of major roads, their test scores fall and their absences increase, according to new research. | Continue reading
“By simply focusing on that city, we’re missing the mark.” | Continue reading
A special election for New York City's top watchdog has many asking how the office can be more effective, or if it should exist at all. | Continue reading
Frampton Tolbert's project draws from the Queens Chamber of Commerce Building Awards program, first organized in 1926 to honor excellence in design and construction. | Continue reading
Communities historically marginalized by the environmental movement are spurring progress. | Continue reading
A three-judge panel hasn’t decided whether to uphold the Ontario government’s unpopular decision. | Continue reading