What Local Climate Actions Would Have the Greatest Impact

In light of even more dire news about our warming planet, leading thinkers tell us the one thing cities and states could do to escalate their response. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

Vehicular Terrorism in the Age of Vision Zero

Deadly attacks by car and truck are on the rise, but cities often fail to respond in ways that protect the most vulnerable road users. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

The Dutch Can’t Save Us From Rising Seas

There are major differences in the flood risk, physical and economic geography, and political systems of the two nations. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

Saving Grand Central, 40 Years Later: a Cautionary Tale

The Supreme Court ruling that helped rescue the New York icon also opened the door for other, more controversial preservation cases. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

White House to Protesters, ‘Get Off My Lawn!’

The National Park Service aims to dial back the sidewalk in front of the President's home from 25 feet to 5 feet—an 80 percent reduction. That’s one of a dozen proposed restrictions that would rethink civic space in federal D.C. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

CityLab Daily: What's Behind North Korea’s Building Boom?

Also: America’s worsening geographic inequality, and why we need better ways to report crime statistics. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

What's Behind North Korea’s Building Boom?

What's powering Kim Jong-un's Pyongyang building boom? An emerging middle class. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

America’s Worsening Geographic Inequality

After narrowing mid-20th century, the economic gap between have and have-not places began to widen again in the 1980s. It hasn't stopped growing. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

Why the U.S. Needs Better Crime Reporting Statistics

What's really the most dangerous American city? The way crimes are currently counted can easily confuse and mislead. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

Can we go electric before it's too late?

Plugging in cars will be critical to averting climate catastrophe. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

CityLab Daily: Voters, Unprotected

Also: Can we go electric before it’s too late? And how Manhattan became a rich ghost town. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

Can We Go Electric Before It’s Too Late?

Plugging in cars will be critical to averting climate catastrophe. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

How Dismantling the Voting Rights Act Helped Georgia Discriminate Again

A decade ago Georgia tried to implement similar “exact-match” voter registration system but was thwarted by a key section of the Voting Rights Act. That section has been removed, leaving voters of color unprotected. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

How Manhattan Became a Rich Ghost Town

New York’s empty storefronts are a dark omen for the future of cities. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

Searching for the Soul of a Community

Can Durham, North Carolina, lead an economic renaissance without leaving its most vulnerable citizens behind? | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

A Nocturnal Facelift For Chicago’s Merchandise Mart

Imagery on the 2.5-acre facade of theMART will bring light and color to the city’s skyline two hours a day, five days a week, 10 months a year. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

Before-and-After Photos of Michael’s Destruction

NOAA images reveal the storm’s brutal, but uneven, impact on the Florida Panhandle. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

Is Sydney’s Opera House a Billboard?

After a promotion for a horse race was projected onto the city's opera house earlier this week, protestors took to the streets with flashlights. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

Leana Wen Takes Her Fight for Women’s Health National

Leana Wen is moving on from shepherding a city's health, to fight for women's health nationwide. And she’s bringing her relentless work ethic with her. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

CityLab Daily: Where It’s Legal to Reverse the Vote of the People

Also today: Is transit doomed in the U.S.? Discuss. And Europe’s capitals keep getting richer and younger. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

Climate Change Might Be Bad for Your Mental Health, Too

A new study finds correlation between climate-change impacts and worsened mental health, but it's unclear what exact factors are to blame. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

Where It’s Legal to Reverse the Vote of the People

More citizen-initiated measures are making it onto the ballot than ever before. But in states where they’re able, legislators are taking steps to alter them. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

Is Transit Doomed in the U.S.? Discuss.

Libertarian gadfly Randal O'Toole and transit advocate Jarrett Walker disagree about most things—but not everything. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

The ‘Cafes’ Where Women Go to Breastfeed

For a lot of moms, consultations for breastfeeding are inaccessible. City-run Baby Cafes aspire to meet women where they are. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

CityLab Daily: The Sudden Growth of Hurricane Michael

Also today: How America fails at communicating flood risks, and Paris is preparing for a warming world. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

Europe’s Capital Cities Keep Getting Richer and Younger

Other areas, not so much. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

How America Fails at Communicating Flood Risks

We may not need information on the risks of flooding very often. But it's essential when we're deciding where to live. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

Interpreting Africa’s Visible, and Invisible, Borders

In the eighth "Invisible Borders Trans-African Road Trip," a group of African artists and writers traverse and interpret the continent’s cities and border towns. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

MapLab: 4,000 Hours of North America

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


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

Paris Is Preparing for a Warming World

Paris, under Mayor Anne Hidalgo, could be a model for how cities can mitigate and plan for climate change. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

The Concrete of Hong Kong

What happens when you take the paint and neon out of the megacity? Pascal Greco’s stark photos reveal a harshly built environment. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

Citylab Daily: Why Transit Works Better Outside the U.S.

Also today: America is losing its edge for startups, and when neighborhood diversity means white anxiety. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

Why Public Transportation Works Better Outside the U.S

The widespread failure of American mass transit is usually blamed on cheap gas and suburban sprawl. But the full story of why other countries succeed is more complicated. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

While America Suffocated Transit, Other Countries Embraced It

Why does public transportation work so much better in Europe, Asia, and Canada? | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

Preserving The Shotgun Homes of Miami’s 19th Century Immigrants

Many descendants of the original Coconut Grove community own property in the neighborhood today, but development is a serious concern and a large part of the community is fighting to protect their homes. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

The UN Climate Report Demands New Transportation Habits

In light of the new IPCC report, hope for the planet’s future means substituting some personal convenience. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

CityLab Daily: Your Transportation Choices Matter

Also today: How to fix badly planned American cities, and Gritty of brotherly love. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

To Avoid Climate Catastrophe, Your Transportation Choices Matter

In light of the new IPCC report, hope for the planet’s future means substituting some personal convenience. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

The US is losing its edge for startups

China, India, Singapore, Japan, and other nations have seen substantial increases in venture-capital investment in their startup companies. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

America Is Losing Its Edge for Startups

China, India, Singapore, Japan, and other nations have seen substantial increases in venture-capital investment in their startup companies. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

The Town That Doesn’t Exist

In a new book, an architect and a photographer document a land of squatters, artists, and migrants with few rules deep in the California desert. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

Megacity vs. Super Typhoon

Even the largest, most advanced cities are vulnerable to the intensifying storms in the Pacific Ocean. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

Can a Cool Campaign Poster Win an Election?

Designers talk about how to create an effective political brand in 2018. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

This Basketball Will Be Your Father

A court in New York City breeds a family of fathers, brothers, and sons, out of people unconnected by blood. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

5 Rules for Designing Better, More Walkable Cities

An excerpt from Jeff Speck's new book 'Walkable City Rules.' | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

Why Cities Turned Against Columbus Day

Scores of cities are dropping the controversial holiday. But the parades often go on. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

Making Space For Indigenous Cultures

Clarissa Tossin's short film appropriates back at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 6 years ago

Navigator: Reading Groups Are Radical Spaces

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@citylab.com | 6 years ago