How a hockey mascot become something more. | Continue reading
Close congressional races this November will likely hinge on the moods of suburban voters, a new CityLab analysis finds. | Continue reading
Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke fell back on a racist, oft-used stereotype to justify shooting unarmed black teenager Laquan McDonald. | Continue reading
One of the architects behind the elevated park now has an ambitious, 6-day event that draws on music, immersive performance, and community engagement to convey one hour of life in the big city. | Continue reading
A newly elected center-right party could put the province in ideological opposition to its biggest city, a left-leaning metropolis with a mayor that has promised better public transit, social inclusion, and sustainable development. | Continue reading
Introducing the CityLab Congressional Density Index. | Continue reading
The perception of demographic change can be more powerful than the reality of it, according to new research on how white residents can feel threatened by racial and ethnic shifts. | Continue reading
Increasingly in America, density has been destiny in elections. Don’t think rural-urban divide. Go to the suburbs. | Continue reading
A new study finds that, counterintuitively, flu outbreaks are less intense in bigger, denser cities. | Continue reading
After unprecedented intervention from Ontario’s conservative government, it’s important for city residents to affirm and expand the meaning and practice of local democracy. | Continue reading
Also: Here comes universal basic mobility, and what the minimum wage means for recidivism. | Continue reading
Safety for people and efficiency for cars can’t happen at the same time. | Continue reading
A transportation platform for the candidates now vying to replace Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. | Continue reading
The decriminalization ordinance gave officers the option to treat possession of small amounts of marijuana lightly. Now most of the misdemeanor charges filed for it are against blacks. | Continue reading
Amazon announced a new $15 minimum wage for its workers. Now it should be a better corporate citizen to the host of its new HQ2. | Continue reading
In a study, boosting paychecks by just 50 cents an hour was found to reduce the odds that a former inmate re-offends. | Continue reading
Before Rosa Parks, there was Elizabeth Jennings. | Continue reading
American politicians rarely focus on mass transportation in election campaigns. But now's the perfect time. | Continue reading
Also: World’s Fairs and the death of optimism, and what to do with London’s empty space. | Continue reading
People need easy access to work and to essential services to live decent, independent lives. Cities need Universal Basic Mobility. It’s a human right. | Continue reading
Some small, nearly all-white towns are receiving far more recovery funds than larger cities nearby with large minority populations. | Continue reading
When natural disasters strike, curbing the potential increase of mosquito-borne illnesses is at the top of public health priorities. | Continue reading
Perhaps it is time to host such events, not with noble platitudes in sparkling metropolises, but in the places facing impending catastrophe. | Continue reading
The city could do more to encourage short-term uses of vacant properties. | Continue reading
A program that started in San Francisco is now making it less intimidating for small startups to partner up with their cities. | Continue reading
For many families in Bogotá, a weekend cycling tradition called Ciclovía is one of the very best things about their city. And kids start very young. | Continue reading
A surge in migrants has fueled populist backlashes in cities around the world. But urban areas have a key role to play in mitigating the crisis. | Continue reading
Also: How to fix Bronx bus service, and detecting tsunamis before it’s too late. | Continue reading
Who gets to say where telecom companies can install their equipment for 5G networks? | Continue reading
Kids from many rural areas have a better chance at upward mobility than those who grow up in urban areas, but it varies from place to place, and from neighborhood to neighborhood. | Continue reading
Can a roomful of frustrated commuters redesign the borough's struggling bus network? | Continue reading
The late father of postmodern architecture wrote about everyday surroundings in a way that gave them credit as a cultural and architectural force. | Continue reading
Also: Robert Venturi made suburbia matter, and a bridge between tech and city hall. | Continue reading
The late father of postmodern architecture wrote about everyday surroundings in a way that gave them credit as a cultural and architectural force. | Continue reading
Once preschool was made free, maternal labor force participation increased. | Continue reading
New research shows that neighborhoods just miles apart that look similar may offer vastly different chances to climb up the economic ladder. | Continue reading
A program that started in San Francisco is now making it less intimidating for small startups to partner up with their cities. | Continue reading
The Ohio Players, Lakeside, Slave, Zapp. In the 70s and 80s, Dayton was a hotbed of funk bands. With the opening of a new museum, the city is claiming its position as “The Land of Funk.” | Continue reading
Also: Why mayors are rallying around the Mississippi River, and the toxins of Camden, New Jersey. | Continue reading
Maryland legislators are calling for county police to investigate the Supreme Court nominee. Here’s how they could pursue it. | Continue reading
Uber is throwing $10 million to support sustainable transportation, while Lyft is challenging people to ditch their cars in exchange for free public transit rides. Is that enough? | Continue reading
The final days of Foote Homes reflects the city’s inability to protect its public housing residents in the face of private redevelopment. | Continue reading
It wafts and weaves through the entire city, but disproportionately affects its most vulnerable children. | Continue reading
What happens on the 2,300-mile-long river in Minnesota can have an impact in Missouri and Louisiana, too. | Continue reading
Also: The man behind the scooter revolution, and the comeback of the mid-sized city. | Continue reading
A controversial program that allows local police to do immigration enforcement has expanded without proper training and oversight, according to a new report by a government watchdog. | Continue reading
In the 1990s, a Swiss inventor laid the foundation for the great dockless e-scooter boom of 2018. | Continue reading
A study on a subset of the gig economy—yes, another one—out of JP Morgan Chase suggests the share of people using online platforms to find work is growing, but hours and earnings are far from regular. | Continue reading