How Machine Learning and AI Can Predict Gentrification

New research tests AI's predictive capabilities in London. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

MapLab: Location, Location, Location

A biweekly tour of the ever-expanding cartographic landscape. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

CityLab Daily: Dig Your Crazy Tunnel, Elon!

Also: Where fast-growing companies want to be, and what older people can learn from parkour. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Why Not Try a Cap-and-Trade System for Low-Income Housing?

In a controversial paper, researchers explore the notion of letting wealthy neighborhoods pay others to accept the low-income housing they don’t want. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

In ‘Mary Poppins Returns,’ an Ode to the Gas Lamp

The lamps that once lit London's streets have come to symbolize a certain time and place in British history. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Dig Your Crazy Tunnel, Elon Musk!

Even if the Boring Company's not-a-subway cost $50 million, it would still be a fraction of what comparable projects cost. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Can Parkour Teach Older People to 'Fall Better'?

It's not all about extreme jumping. It can also help people learn to avoid injury. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Archigram’s Radical Architectural Legacy

Three members of the ‘60s collective talk to author Darran Anderson about postmodernism, metabolism, their values, and watching the world catch up to them. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Oslo Metro Taps Zaha Hadid Architects for Its Expansion

Zaha Hadid Architects will design two of the six stations on the forthcoming Fornebu line. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Growing Companies Prefer Vibrant Parts of Cities—and Suburbs

A new study finds that high-growth firms gravitate to neighborhoods that are denser, more mixed-use, and more transit-accessible, whether they’re in the city or the suburbs. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

CityLab Daily: A Prayer for the Post Office

Also: France’s gas tax protests should be a warning for California, and New York takes aim at sexual harassment in nightlife. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

New York's Low Apartment Turnover Hinders Affordability

New York City has one of the lowest rates of home turnover in the country. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

A Prayer for the Post Office

While USPS workers deliver Christmas gifts, Mark Dimondstein, president of the American Postal Workers’ Union, is busy fending off demands to privatize the mail. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

How Low Turnover Fuels New York City’s Affordable Housing Crisis

New York City has one of the lowest rates of home turnover in the country. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

France’s Gas Tax Protests Should Be a Warning for California

Policies that reduce climate emissions at the expense of the economically disadvantaged are unsustainable. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Her Neighbor Hated Her Dragon Nativity Scene. So She Got More Dragons.

A lesson in Christmastime neighborliness from South Louisiana. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

For Rural Americans, Healthcare and Hospitals Can Be Far Away

A new Pew Research Center study finds rural Americans face longer travel times to hospitals and feel they have lower quality healthcare than urban residents. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

CityLab Daily: How Cities Could Make the Uber/Lyft IPO Pay Off

Also: The city where kids are little “revolutionaries,” and why Apple bet on Austin’s suburbs. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Rebuilding a City from the Eye of a Child

In the city of Tirana, an ambitious mayor is selling a wary constituency on new ideas by putting children at the forefront of his agenda. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

See 200 Years of Immigration as the Rings of a Tree

“I wanted to portray the United States like an organism that’s alive and that took a long time to grow.” | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Navigator: Clickety Clack!

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@citylab.com | 5 years ago

The New Stars of a NYC Subway Station: Very Good Doggos

Flo and Topper—the pet Weimaraners of artist William Wegman—grace the walls of the redesigned 23rd Street (M and F lines) station as part of the MTA's Enhanced Station Initiative. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Why Apple Bet on Austin’s Suburbs for Its Next Big Expansion

Apple has followed a tech expansion playbook that may just exacerbate economic inequality—both in the country, and the area. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

The Policy That Will Make the Uber/Lyft IPO Pay Off

Congestion pricing is gaining ground in New York City and Los Angeles. That could help turn around Uber and Lyft's losses. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

CityLab Daily: So You Want to Be a Night Mayor

Also: Why is it legal for landlords to refuse Section 8 renters? And the case for teaching architecture in school. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

So You Want to Be a ‘Night Mayor’

As U.S. cities hire nightlife officials, we talked to people on the job about what they really do—and why you shouldn’t call them “night mayors” at all. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Reading Between The Lines of Montreal’s ‘Cheap’ Rents

For people living in Toronto and Vancouver, an apartment in Quebec's biggest city seems like a steal. But established residents have become noticeably preoccupied with gentrification. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Tacos and Transit: Rate Your City

We asked you to grade America’s cities on two critical, unrelated metrics: Mexican food and public transportation. Here’s what we learned. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Why Is It Legal for Landlords to Refuse Section 8 Renters?

Racism alone doesn't fully explain why landlords tend to reject tenants based on whether they are receiving federal housing aid. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

How Urban Core Amenities Drive Gentrification and Increase Inequality

A new study finds that as the rich move back to superstar cities' urban cores to gain access to unique amenities they drive low-income people out. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Norway’s Energy-Positive Building Spree Is Here

An Oslo consortium made up of architects, engineers, environmentalists, and designers is creating buildings that go beyond "zero-energy" in a country with some of the coldest and darkest winters on Earth. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

CityLab Daily: Apple Gets Bigger in Texas

Also: New York City’s self-induced transportation crisis, and the “Dutch reach” comes to driver’s ed. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Britain Must Now Contemplate a Grim Selection of Brexit Options

U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May survived a no-confidence vote in Parliament, but her Brexit deal is still doomed. That raises the stakes on the remaining options. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Clickety Clackety! Philly Rallies to Save its Train Station Flip Board

Amtrak’s 30th Street Station was slated to lose its iconic clickity-clacking display. But Philadelphians had other ideas. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

The Life-Saving ‘Dutch Reach’ Comes to American Driver’s Ed

Starting in January, traffic safety organizations will teach motorists how to better avoid hitting passing bicyclists with car doors. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

The Case for Architecture Classes in Schools

A Hong Kong architect has taught urban design and planning to thousands of children over the past 15 years. He argues it’s good for them—and their communities. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

New York City’s Self-Induced Transportation Crisis

By failing to properly plan for subways, buses, e-bikes, and ride-hailing, the city is dooming itself. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

America Runs on Car Loan Debt

A new tool by the Urban Institute maps the geography of car loan debt and delinquency. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

CityLab Daily: Why Can't Uber and Lyft Be More Wheelchair-Friendly?

Also: Fire trucks are too big, and the tree that ruined your city’s Christmas. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

The Tree That Ruined Your City’s Christmas

Note to mayors: Don't screw up the tree. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Revisiting Architect Paul Rudolph’s Hong Kong Years

In an exhibit at New York's Center for Architecture, curator Nora Leung—who worked with Rudolph—sheds light on three projects he designed for Hong Kong during a period of change. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Urban Flooding Is Worryingly Widespread in the U.S., But Under-Studied

When flooding occurs in a small town or only a small part of a city, it doesn’t register like a big disaster does. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

The Fire Trucks Are Too Damn Big

A new study makes a case for shrinking America's too-big fire trucks. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Ride-Hailing’s Long Road to Accessibility

Advocates are skeptical of Uber's new promise to increase its accessible vehicle fleet. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

CityLab Daily: Can Poletown Come Back After GM?

Also today: How corporate tax incentives rob school budgets, and how cities design themselves. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

How Corporate Tax Incentives Rob Public School Budgets

A new Good Jobs First study shows that corporate tax incentives—like those given for Amazon HQ2—have diverted almost $2 billion from public schools. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

How Cities Design Themselves

"Every time urban planners do something, they should ask: Who is going to pay?" | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Mayors Should Take a Stand Against a Future Amazon HQ2

Calling on federal government to regulate economic incentives is a cop-out. It’s time for America’s big cities and mayors to stand up to companies like Amazon. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago