The mega-retailer's twin HQ2 picks reflect the economic development power of mass transit. But New York's trains could use some help. | Continue reading
The $755-million (CDN) building project is named Le Phare, the French word for “lighthouse” or “beacon.” If built, it will be the tallest Canadian building east of Toronto. | Continue reading
Builders must imagine at the beginning of a structure’s life what will happen at the end of it. | Continue reading
The "Yellow Vest" movement doesn't necessarily fall along typical partisan lines. | Continue reading
The borough's system has been shedding riders for a decade. Here's how to fix it. | Continue reading
Also: Give pay toilets another chance, and Texas cities block out Section 8 renters. | Continue reading
In the 1970s, many American cities and states banned pay toilets, but the vision of abundant free toilets for all never came to pass. | Continue reading
A new Brookings study documents the growing economic divergence of America’s superstar cities from smaller urban and rural areas. | Continue reading
The two pillars of American housing policy are fundamentally at odds. | Continue reading
Renowned for its long quilt-making tradition, the rural hamlet of Gee’s Bend (now Boykin), Alabama, struggles with deep poverty. Would incorporating as a town help? | Continue reading
The two pillars of American housing policy are fundamentally at odds. | Continue reading
The wealthy residents of Eagle's Landing voted Tuesday on whether to secede from the metro Atlanta city of Stockbridge, just after a black mayor and an all-black city council took office. | Continue reading
The Showbox has become a flashpoint in the fight to preserve a changing city. | Continue reading
Also: The geography of corporate headquarters, and Tulsa’s offer to remote workers. | Continue reading
A nonprofit is offering $10,000 and a host of perks to remote workers that agree to live in the Oklahoma city for a year. | Continue reading
Greg Durrell's new documentary, 'Design Canada,' looks at the political and cultural origins of a nation's impressive collection of postwar symbols. | Continue reading
Proactive tree removal, ensuring defensible space around homes, and even improving firefighters' access to sites all sound like no-brainers, but none of them comes easy or cheap. | Continue reading
The Knight Foundation’s On the Table series pairs food with community discussion. | Continue reading
Before contracts are signed and money is transferred, local politicians and activists in New York and Virginia have a few legal avenues left to alter their Amazon packages. And the opposition movement is building. | Continue reading
Complaints that Amazon HQ2 locations are already superstar cities don’t recognize a counter-trend of Fortune 500 corporate headquarters relocations, new data shows. | Continue reading
Also: Millennials are more likely to buy their first homes in cities, and communities of color are more vulnerable to wildfire. | Continue reading
How did the U.K. government so massively misjudge what leaving the European Union would do?: | Continue reading
New research finds that Millennials are 21 percent more likely to buy their first homes near city centers than Generation X. | Continue reading
Big-box retailers nationwide are slashing their property taxes through a legal loophole known as "dark store theory." For the towns that rely on that revenue, this could be a disaster. | Continue reading
Most of the Americans who live in areas with a high chance of extreme wildfire are white. But black, Hispanic, and Native American communities often have worse prospects for recovery. | Continue reading
Advocates like 'Generation Priced Out' author Randy Shaw have correctly identified the key barrier to building more urban housing: older homeowners, and zoning regulations that protect them. | Continue reading
France’s most comprehensive car ban marks an important moment of cooperation for oft-quarreling municipalities. | Continue reading
Before contracts are signed and money is transferred, local politicians and activists in New York and Virginia have a few legal avenues left to alter their Amazon packages. And the opposition movement is building. | Continue reading
Also: America really is a nation of suburbs, and why cities need to smack down single-housing zoning. | Continue reading
McKim, Meade & White introduced and normalized classicism into the nation's architectural landscape. | Continue reading
Big-box retailers nationwide are slashing their property taxes through a legal loophole known as "dark store theory." For the towns that rely on that revenue, this could be a disaster. | Continue reading
According to new data from the American Housing Survey, 52 percent of people in the U.S. regard their neighborhoods as suburban, and so do 47 percent of those in the central cities of metropolitan areas. | Continue reading
Advocates like 'Generation Priced Out' author Randy Shaw have correctly identified the key barrier to building more urban housing: older homeowners, and zoning regulations that protect them. | Continue reading
The Poor People's Campaign is building a multi-ethnic national force to “save the democracy,” and end the cross-racial poverty it sees as born of racialized voter suppression. | Continue reading
Also: How the housing crisis affects veterans, and how Stan Lee saw New York City. | Continue reading
Amazon HQ2 may be split between superstar cities, but San Francisco’s big tech firms are starting to move into smaller, non-coastal places. | Continue reading
The Marvel Comics maestro gave his superheroes a city that’s colorful, dangerous, rude, quippy, and full of heart. It might be his greatest creation. | Continue reading
After Jeff Bezos set off one of the highest-profile bidding wars in modern history, Amazon picked two East Coast cities for its new headquarters. The surprise extra: There's something in it for Nashville, too. | Continue reading
A new study finds that Post-9/11 veterans struggle with home prices at a greater rate than earlier generations of vets and more than other non-vet civilians. | Continue reading
Austin's Community First! Village is designed to demonstrate the stabilizing power of social connections. | Continue reading
Many hands pitched to help revive El Teatro Argel. Architects and decorators lent their advice for free and a student from a local university painted the signature bas relief panels on the exterior. The project took four years to complete. | Continue reading
Also: How a housing agency fights off the drug trade, and photos from California’s deadly wildfires. | Continue reading
Northern California’s Camp Fire has destroyed thousands of homes and claimed many lives. Meanwhile, the Southern California Woolsey Fire has left much of Malibu under mandatory evacuation. | Continue reading
Austin's Community First! Village is designed to demonstrate the stabilizing power of social connections. | Continue reading
Frustrated by rampant heroin trade, residents of the street Zeedijk forced a public-private real-estate partnership to protect the street while preventing community displacement. | Continue reading
Radha Agrawal, inventor of the Daybreaker events, wrote a new book on how to find community in an isolated world. I tried to follow her advice. | Continue reading
There were many reasons to oppose letting Eagle’s Landing tear apart the city of Stockbridge, but it shouldn’t have even been on the ballot in the first place. | Continue reading