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The city gained international recognition for its groundbreaking policy on protecting the Earth's atmosphere. | Continue reading
A website is engaged in a modern-day redlining of Cleveland, but in this time of rising home prices, locals say it might have the unintended effect of keeping housing affordable. | Continue reading
A section of the tower’s original staircase is up for auction in Paris this month. | Continue reading
A lone gunman killed at least 12 people in Thousand Oaks, a well-off California suburb known as one of the safest communities in America. | Continue reading
Also: Democrats won Texas’s last conservative city, and what Seattle wants from an octopus census. | Continue reading
The Louisiana vote to end non-unanimous jury verdicts plus a new law restoring voting rights to people who've been convicted of felony crimes, equals a hobbling attack on Jim Crow. | Continue reading
For Mexican authorities, the issue of how to manage Central American migrants didn’t disappear after the midterm election. | Continue reading
In splitting HQ2, Amazon gains a presence in New York, which has the largest number of corporate headquarters, and greater Washington D.C., which is fast gaining as a popular site for a corporate base. | Continue reading
Adidas's TfL-themed designs commemorate the 15th anniversary of the public transit payment system. | Continue reading
The latest survey of giant Pacific octopuses conducted by local divers revealed a fluctuating but mostly stable population. | Continue reading
This year’s midterm elections had locals officials winning statewide and national seats. | Continue reading
Predominantly suburban congressional districts, once closely divided, are now twice as likely to be represented by a Democrat as by a Republican. | Continue reading
A biweekly tour of the ever-expanding cartographic landscape. | Continue reading
It wasn't a blue wave, but liberal voters have stormed the last conservative urban stronghold in Texas. | Continue reading
Also: California rejects rent control, and the strangest form of white flight. | Continue reading
High voter turnout meant lots of wins for transit and transportation-related ballot measures on Tuesday. | Continue reading
Across the U.S., progressive causes won big in ballot initiative results, from minimum wage hikes, to felon re-enfranchisement, to a corporate tax for homelessness. | Continue reading
Two very different neighborhoods in the affluent Alberta city are joined together by a thoughtful piece of civic architecture. | Continue reading
Proposition 10 was rejected but rent control is on the agenda in other places across the country. Why? It’s not the affordable housing fix-all people think. | Continue reading
Officials blamed the weather for faulty ballot machines, in NYC and elsewhere. But some are calling for the board of elections head’s resignation. | Continue reading
Where the Bonaventure Expressway once furthered Griffintown's isolation and blight, public art and greenspace now welcome pedestrians and motorists alike. | Continue reading
The creative class makes up as much as 55 percent of the workforce in some small rural counties, complicating the idea that it's an urban phenomenon. | Continue reading
Here’s what we’re tracking on Election Day. | Continue reading
Even at the state level, density is closely tied to politics this year. Take Minnesota. | Continue reading
The Swedish capital has rebuffed the tech giant’s scheme to build a new Apple Store in the Kungsträdgården, the city’s central square. | Continue reading
Even if the 2018 midterm elections seemingly produce a blue wave, non-traditional candidates will continue to rise as Bernie Sanders has injected socialism into national discourse. | Continue reading
It won't get double the tax incentives (probably). But it has other reasons for splitting up its second headquarters. | Continue reading
It won't get double the tax incentives (probably). But it has other reasons for splitting up its second headquarters. | Continue reading
Other issues may have grabbed the headlines, but it's health care and social spending that are hanging in the balance of this election. | Continue reading
“The United States of Apathy” showcases the dramatic effect of low voter turnout in U.S. elections | Continue reading
The wealthy residents of Eagle's Landing are voting 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
Also: Baby Boomers are thwarting Millennial homebuyers, and the companies making it easier to vote on Election Day. | Continue reading
Campaigns this year in Texas, California, Florida, and elsewhere have put natural disasters—and sometimes climate change—front and center. | Continue reading
In 2010, Republicans established a new normal by dominating rural areas. Now, it’s the suburbs that are up for grabs. | Continue reading
The effort to energize right-leaning voters over fuel fees could set back the state's ambitious climate goals. | Continue reading
The designer behind Black Panther’s beloved city spent 10 months and 500 pages setting out a vision for a futuristic urban space that was about people before technology. | Continue reading
In Florida, New York, North Carolina, and Maryland, sheriffs’ and other local races have become referenda on local cooperation with Trump’s immigration machine. | Continue reading
"Cities that claim to promote inclusion cannot just relegate the non-rich to economically segregated parts of town." | Continue reading
The renowned architect is just one of many opponents who say the project prioritizes politics over real sustainability. Israel’s Association of Architects and Town Planners warns it could be in violation of development laws. | Continue reading
If the prevailing application of the 14th Amendment no longer holds, new data documents where the children who would be affected by an executive order live. | Continue reading
Instead of voter suppression, these companies and transit agencies are engaged in voter support. They want to make access to the polls easier on Election Day. | Continue reading
Political leaders often portray migrants and refugees as an invading force that will inundate towns and cities. It's a fiction, but it works. | Continue reading
Also: Can voters end gerrymandering when politicians won’t? And the ultimate mid-century modernism road trip. | Continue reading
The city’s oft-maligned mini-train is aggressively useless. But I kind of love it. | Continue reading
On Election Day, voters in Michigan, Utah, Missouri, and Colorado will decide if independent commissions—not lawmakers—should draw their states’ political districts. | Continue reading
Sam Lubell, author of "The Mid-Century Modern Architecture Travel Guide," talks about what makes so much of the concrete, steel, and glass up and down the Atlantic coast so special. | Continue reading
A new study refutes some common stereotypes of who cares most about the environment. | Continue reading