The Portland, Oregon, Clean Energy Community Benefits Initiative on the ballot Tuesday is a model for other cities to address inequity and climate change. | Continue reading
“It is a dilemma of openness and welcoming versus being closed-off and secure.” | Continue reading
Across the U.S., denser districts in Congress tend to be more Democratic, and sparser ones more Republican. But there are a few exceptions with their own personalities, from Staten Island to Bernie Sanders land. | Continue reading
Also: What is Mitch Landrieu running for? And autism-friendly apartments open in Phoenix. | Continue reading
More refugees than ever are resettling in urban areas—particularly in the developing world. The humanitarian sector needs to support these cities. | Continue reading
Informal recyclers help the city deal with its tide of trash, but many of them are child refugees. | Continue reading
Starting Thursday, high-performing Uber drivers can earn tuition-free online education from Arizona State University. | Continue reading
Yusuf Shegow's project aims to link the country's diaspora to its buildings by examining not just their designs, but the context in which they came to be. | Continue reading
A new study of college-educated "power couples" reveals a distinct gender bias. | Continue reading
The former New Orleans mayor wants everyone to know that there is a way to talk about race in America, and Donald Trump—that ain’t it. | Continue reading
Also: I survived Brooklyn’s “L Train Shutdown Nightmare,” and the talent dividend in urban and rural areas. | Continue reading
Phoenix's First Place complex includes an academy for teaching life and work skills as well as 55 one- and two-bedroom apartments. | Continue reading
A (short-lived) haunted attraction in Bushwick attempted to capture New York City's fear of a subway "L-pocalypse." | Continue reading
Urban places have the largest numbers of college graduates, but rural counties are starting to see more growth. | Continue reading
A deliciously wonky map shows you that when it comes to electoral politics, “deviation from the norm is the norm.” | Continue reading
California state and city ballot measures offer a variety of strategies for improving access to affordable housing, and shrinking the homeless population. | Continue reading
Also: Durham’s plan to “nudge” drivers out of cars, and Taipei’s mayor is a rapper now. | Continue reading
Mayor Ko Wen-je just dropped a trap song with one simple message: “Do things right.” | Continue reading
The city’s mayor reflects talks about her plan to tackle a daunting set of crime, policing, and drug problems. | Continue reading
After facing community resistance, the tech giant reversed its plans to build a new campus in the city’s trendy Kreuzberg district. | Continue reading
Behavioral science strategies like offering prizes are getting people into public transit. | Continue reading
An interactive history of underground D.C. reveals the quirks of a city that was built by and for the federal government. | Continue reading
Morocco is preparing to launch a high-speed train, reputed to be the first in Africa. But in the wake of a deadly train derailment this month near the capital city, Rabat, residents say safe, rather than fast train service, should be the priority. | Continue reading
Follow along with the global meeting of city leaders, scholars, designers, and journalists. | Continue reading
Early works of Modernist architecture were often inspired by clean, bright sanatoria for patients with TB. | Continue reading
Already, real estate investors are making plans for the inevitable influx of workers and the corresponding leap in the housing market when Amazon selects its HQ2. | Continue reading
Also: What Alexa can do for city hall, and lessons from an “adulting” class. | Continue reading
Anticipating the growing popularity of smart speakers, cities are making them a public service tool. | Continue reading
There's a whole cottage industry devoted to teaching Millennials basic life skills. Are young adults that hapless, or is being a grown-up really harder now? | Continue reading
Not only will Unity Park in Greenville, South Carolina, unite two formerly segregated parks; confronting and educating visitors about its history, including a segregated baseball stadium, is part of the design. | Continue reading
Follow along with the global meeting of city leaders, scholars, designers, and journalists. | Continue reading
The neighborhood where Tree of Life Synagogue was terrorized is a model Pittsburgh of inclusivity. Perhaps that’s why it was vulnerable to a bigoted attack. | Continue reading
Favored by leaders in transportation and logistics, the International Fixed Calendar was a favorite of Kodak founder George Eastman, whose company used it until 1989. | Continue reading
Also: How to battle New York’s vacant storefronts, and look to cemeteries for affordable homes. | Continue reading
For decades, the city has mulled rent control for small businesses. This time, though, lawmakers might be serious. | Continue reading
Live near the dead. You just might get a discount on your home, and have (very, very) quiet neighbors. | Continue reading
New campaign filings show the tech titans spending to oppose and support the city's homelessness ballot measure. | Continue reading
A new study looks at Uber and Lyft’s hand in the rising toll of traffic fatalities. | Continue reading
Whim is oft-cited as a bellwether for the future of urban mobility. Two years in, has it changed the way people move around Helsinki? | Continue reading
Putting coyote urine and a soundtrack around the lookout didn't keep the animals away from Mount Royal Park, so one group focused on the human side of the equation. | Continue reading
The company that runs the system says improving accessibility would be almost impossible. Activists are skeptical. | Continue reading
ICE's community arrests are heavily concentrated in a handful of counties. | Continue reading
The constituents of Trump voters in Congress offer clues to the role played by the way people live and commute in America’s political divisions. | Continue reading
“When I was watching the news yesterday, all I could keep saying is, ‘1919! 1919! It’s all happening all over again.’” | Continue reading
Also: Paris gets to keep its car ban, and cities are turning snails yellow. | Continue reading
Mayor Anne Hidalgo shifted her defense of the pedestrianization plan, winning with an argument that a car ban protects the city’s heritage and tourism. | Continue reading
Whim is oft-cited as a bellwether for the future of urban mobility. Two years in, has it changed the way people move around Helsinki? | Continue reading