On issues like climate change and gun violence, youthful voices demanded answers in 2018. | Continue reading
Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King was assassinated. But the racist housing and policing policies he was fighting are still with us. | Continue reading
After World War II, town twinning was an expression of European solidarity. Now, budget cuts and Brexit have called the tradition into question, but many in the U.K. want it to continue. | Continue reading
Technology companies aren't really built to fix society. So maybe think twice about letting them rebuild urban spaces. | Continue reading
"Cities that claim to promote inclusion cannot just relegate the non-rich to economically segregated parts of town." | Continue reading
For one thing, the population of young kids is increasing, even as the country struggles with low birth rates. | Continue reading
Sam Adams, Sarah Deer, Stephen Goldsmith, Sarah Ichioka, Emeka Okereke, Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe, Katie Wells, and David Zipper weigh in. | Continue reading
Also: A graphical guide to the retail apocalypse, and the year of the YIMBY. | Continue reading
From Minneapolis to Seattle, pro-housing forces found a way to fend off their NIMBY foes. | Continue reading
Store closures are up—but other measures suggest brick-and-mortar retail is still doing OK. | Continue reading
A plan in Seattle stokes concerns about the link between homelessness and incarceration. | Continue reading
From Minneapolis to Seattle, pro-housing forces found a way to fend off their NIMBY foes. | Continue reading
It’s too late for urban commentators to "save" rural America. It’s already saving itself. | Continue reading
The novel ride-hailing service for low-income pregnant women will be piloted in 2019. | Continue reading
Also: Inside the strongest clean energy requirement in the U.S., and a historical trove of “persuasive maps.” | Continue reading
Thanks to generous incentives, half of all new cars sold in Norway are EVs. But the push to give up gas and diesel is yielding to another goal: making the personal car itself an endangered species. | Continue reading
Thanks to generous incentives, half of all new cars sold in Norway are EVs. But the push to give up gas and diesel is yielding to another goal: making the personal car itself an endangered species. | Continue reading
Technology companies don't really want to fix society. So maybe think twice about letting them reinvent urban spaces. | Continue reading
A digital collection from Cornell University shows how subjective maps can be used to manipulate, rather than present the world as it really is. | Continue reading
Here's how. | Continue reading
Also: Amazon’s “eyes on the street,” and mapping the urban tree canopy. | Continue reading
Two designers propose a radical rethinking of the grid that puts pedestrians first. | Continue reading
Researchers at Descartes Labs are using artificial intelligence to make a better map of the urban tree canopy. | Continue reading
A ban on the busses that are many Kenyans only travel option lasted a day. | Continue reading
Private funding and high-impact design were recurring themes of new urban parks in 2018. So was the hope that parks can unite, repair, and invigorate cities. | Continue reading
The tech company’s proposed facial recognition video doorbell could be a civil libertarian’s nightmare. | Continue reading
From Paris to Madrid, efforts to curb the use of automobiles formed a battleground across Europe, and sparked a fierce backlash. | Continue reading
Philadelphia’s East Passyunk Avenue teems with visitors to trendy shops and restaurants. Nobody can say when or why a stereotypical Native American image came to represent it. | Continue reading
The old narrative of city and suburb is dead; in 2018, the spaces outside of cities were revealed in their full complexity. | Continue reading
We used Yelp and Google Trends data to see if people really swap the eggnog for chow fun. | Continue reading
The old narrative of city and suburb is dead; in 2018, the spaces outside of cities were revealed in their full complexity. | Continue reading
When one side isn't reserved for walkers, it saves time for everyone. But that's not convincing enough. | Continue reading
The Spanish city has pioneered bee-friendly policies amid a decline in the global bee population. | Continue reading
Plunging temps and heavy snow can be cruel to the e-scooter industry. | Continue reading
The dockless e-scooter was the fad of the summer, and maybe a legitimate mobility breakthrough. | Continue reading
All eyes are on Sidewalk Labs' futuristic plans for a data-driven neighborhood in Toronto. But no one's watching more closely than Bianca Wiley. | Continue reading
Formerly homeless activists pushed Washington D.C. to pass expansive public restroom legislation. Now the city is moving to increase toilet access for the public. | Continue reading
We used Yelp and Google Trends data to see if people really swap the eggnog for chow fun. | Continue reading
New research tests AI's predictive capabilities in London. | Continue reading
It’s too late for urban commentators to "save" rural America. It’s already saving itself. | Continue reading
The dockless e-scooter was the fad of the summer, and maybe a legitimate mobility breakthrough. | Continue reading
A new study makes a case for shrinking America's heavy-duty emergency vehicles. | Continue reading
Also: The concerning rise of dollar stores, and Tokyo wants people to stand on both sides of the escalator. | Continue reading
The U.S. has added 10,000 of these budget retail outlets since 2001. But some towns and cities have had enough. | Continue reading
These 15 people changed how we plan, design, think about, and live in cities. | Continue reading
When one side isn't reserved for walkers, it saves time for everyone. But that's not convincing enough. | Continue reading
The Good Place star wrote Travisville after learning about a civil rights battle that displaced a black community near the Texas State Fair. | Continue reading