As coronavirus transforms our private and public spaces, how would you map what your neighborhood and community look like now? | Continue reading
To help get essential workers around, cities are revising traffic patterns, suspending public transit fares, and making more room for bikes and pedestrians. | Continue reading
The short-term rental market is reeling from the coronavirus-driven tourism collapse. Can the industry’s dominant player stage a comeback after lockdowns lift? | Continue reading
Despite Covid-19’s spread in New Orleans, police have recently increased arrests for nonviolent crimes. Louisiana’s top court could put a stop to that. | Continue reading
Allan Calhamer's brilliant geographic legacy. | Continue reading
What's a parent to do when all of the schools and daycares suddenly close? For some workers in some places, options are starting to emerge. | Continue reading
To prevent a housing disaster, leaders in nine U.S. cities called on state and federal officials to give more support to tenants as the Covid-19 crisis deepens. | Continue reading
Auctioning homes over unpaid taxes only makes racial and income inequities worse. The coronavirus crisis offers a good time to halt the practice, permanently. | Continue reading
Renters in apartments and houses share more than just germs with their roommates: Life under coronavirus lockdown means negotiating new social rules. | Continue reading
Access to parks, nature, and wildlife is critical for physical and emotional well-being. Now some city dwellers sheltered at home are finding it in small sizes. | Continue reading
Because of coronavirus, millions of tenants won’t be able to write rent checks. But calls for a rent holiday often ignore the longer-term economic effects. | Continue reading
To help flatten the curve in the Covid-19 outbreak, officials at all levels of government are asking people to stay home. Here's what’s worked, and what hasn't. | Continue reading
Portable pantries. Saucepan protests. Small-space dance routines. The best coronavirus community efforts use social distancing as an asset, not an obstacle. | Continue reading
Hey renters, homeowners, landlords, and others: What do you want to know about housing rights and resources during the Covid-19 crisis? Answer our brief survey. | Continue reading
The latest U.S. coronavirus aid package promises a partial and uneven economic recovery that leaves behind the African American community. | Continue reading
The latest U.S. coronavirus aid package promises a partial and uneven economic recovery that leaves behind the African American community. | Continue reading
Former HUD secretary and presidential candidate Julián Castro has ideas for state and federal leaders on protecting vulnerable renters from a housing disaster. | Continue reading
In places where most child cares and schools have closed, in-home family daycares that remain open aren’t seeing the demand — or the support — they expected. | Continue reading
Some renters and homeowners are getting financial assistance during the economic disruption from the coronavirus pandemic. What about landlords? | Continue reading
The science fiction and fantasy author talks to CityLab about the parallels between fiction and reality in her new book, "The City We Became." | Continue reading
Why would residents block a Covid-19 testing site? For the same reason many oppose other forms of neighborhood change: a desire to shift the burden elsewhere. | Continue reading
We must prepare for a protracted battle with coronavirus. But there are changes we can make now to prepare locked-down cities for what’s next. | Continue reading
The new PBS documentary film from Sarah Burns and David McMahon chronicles the fall of an Atlanta housing project through the residents who once called it home. | Continue reading
With the Major League Baseball season on hold, the ballparks of North America hosted no crowds for Opening Day 2020. Here's a sad photo gallery. | Continue reading
To move Covid-19 patients from the hardest-hit areas, French authorities turned one of the nation’s famous TGV trains into a very fast ambulance. | Continue reading
Some renters and homeowners are getting financial assistance during the economic disruption from the coronavirus pandemic. What about landlords? | Continue reading
Traditional weddings are unsafe if not banned in much of the world due to Covid-19. But that doesn’t mean couples are canceling the dancing or live music. | Continue reading
As the coronavirus crisis forces changes in transportation, some cities are building bike lanes and protecting cycling shops. Here’s why that makes sense. | Continue reading
A group of U.S. economists, academics and policy makers say the Covid-19 pandemic is an opportunity to fix the economy — and the planet — for the long term. | Continue reading
Uber and Lyft drivers risk Covid-19 infections to shuttle doctors and vulnerable people around. Can they get the same job protections as other frontline workers? | Continue reading
For decades, the U.S. has used spatial barricades to isolate advantaged people from serious social ills. To defeat Covid-19, that won’t work. | Continue reading
Working remotely long predated third-wave coffee shops and sleek co-working spaces. | Continue reading
Urban resilience expert Michael Berkowitz shares ideas about how U.S. cities can come back stronger from the social and economic disruption of coronavirus. | Continue reading
Migrants who have crossed the border into Mexico say they still fear violence and poverty back home more than the Covid-19 pandemic. | Continue reading
Hailed for its early efforts to contain Covid-19, Singapore has recently seen a surge in new coronavirus cases. Still, daily life is surprisingly unaffected. | Continue reading
Dozens of cities and counties are releasing inmates to lower the risk of a Covid-19 outbreak. But some notable ones are holding out. | Continue reading
With almost 44 million American kids out of school, teachers want to turn to online learning — but not everyone can log on. | Continue reading
There are reasons why younger adults ignore public health warnings and say that Covid-19 is “just killing old people,” says geriatrician Louise Aronson. | Continue reading
In Ohio and elsewhere, buses are going fare-free as the Covid-19 crisis spreads. Here’s why that can make both riders and drivers safer. | Continue reading
Jarringly quiet highways and empty rail cars are signs of Covid-19’s profound economic and public health impacts. Perhaps leaders can also learn from them. | Continue reading
To reduce risk of coronavirus transmission, U.S. hospitals have halted most volunteer services, further straining staff resources at the worst possible time. | Continue reading
Janitors, domestic workers, housekeeping, and office cleaning crews are on the front lines of the battle against Covid-19. Can they protect their own health? | Continue reading
Households that rely on food assistance can’t stock up during the coronavirus crisis. That’s why the U.S. created the P-SNAP program more than a decade ago. | Continue reading
A movement to halt evictions amid the Covid-19 pandemic is spreading to more U.S. cities and states. Many are looking to stop utility shut-offs and foreclosures, too. | Continue reading
Don’t let rural hospitals get overrun with Covid-19 cases just to enjoy your summer house, the government warns. | Continue reading
During a plague outbreak in 1899, officials in Honolulu quarantined and burned the city’s Chinatown. Some Covid-19 talk today echoes their rhetoric. | Continue reading
Will COVID-19 change how cities are designed? Michele Acuto of the Connected Cities Lab talks about density, urbanization and pandemic preparation. | Continue reading
As Covid-19 disrupts every area of our lives, CityLab wants to know what your community is doing to cope. | Continue reading