In his new book, Anand Giridharadas argues that plutocrats have co-opted the language of social change while reinforcing their own power. | Continue reading
A biweekly tour of the ever-expanding cartographic landscape. | Continue reading
A generation ago, places like Oklahoma City felt as if they were in a permanent state of decline, says its longtime mayor. Here’s why people are coming back. | Continue reading
Think policies, not thought training. | Continue reading
How a Swiss inventor laid the foundation for the dockless e-scooter boom, two decades ago. | Continue reading
Also: Say goodbye to Confederate Avenue, and some rural counties are seeing a job boom. | Continue reading
It's been dubbed "Toronto on the IJ." | Continue reading
Designed in 1903, the Mall is too big and too grand for regular use by Clevelanders (and tourists). But with a real link to the waterfront and some new uses, that could change. | Continue reading
Say goodbye to Confederate Avenue. | Continue reading
Economic growth is a mixed bag in urban and rural counties, large and small. | Continue reading
A new rule seeks to bar low-income immigrants if they’re likely to use food stamps and public housing. | Continue reading
Also: The Obama Library after Rahm Emanuel, and a look into the Museum of Broken Windows. | Continue reading
It’s never okay in rush hour. But when the train isn’t crowded, it might be a person’s only option, and we can all live with that. | Continue reading
It could help South Side activists who have been pushing for a community benefits agreement. | Continue reading
In a pop-up exhibition, artists and activists display personal experiences with a fraught theory of policing. | Continue reading
The new V&A Dundee is hoped to direct more attention, and visitors, to the post-industrial city. | Continue reading
Via cellphone data and user reports, navigation apps and mapping companies tried to track Hurricane Florence’s path of destruction. | Continue reading
Also: Central Park’s hungry creatures of the night, and where environmental justice is threatened in the Carolinas. | Continue reading
Raccoons, rats, and pigeons have adapted to live in close proximity to humans. What if we tried to understand their world instead of writing them off as pests? | Continue reading
Some libraries are getting young kids reading by taking the books outside. | Continue reading
There There author Tommy Orange discusses his experience telling stories about Oakland and Native Americans, and why cities should be seen as part of the natural environment. | Continue reading
Local regulations are a major driver of costs of low-income housing developers. But we don’t know exactly how much. | Continue reading
The African American families embroiled in litigation against toxic animal-feeding operations join a long history of black communities fighting for the right to their health in the Carolinas. | Continue reading
Without these eight places in the Carolinas, we may not have the language, knowledge, and tools to fight environmental injustice in the age of climate change. | Continue reading
Also: Judged in the court of public support, and the global mass transit revolution. | Continue reading
A children’s hospital in Columbus, Ohio, has been playing developer in an effort to transform the struggling community next door. And it seems to be working. | Continue reading
Participants and graduation, instead of defendants and parole. Since April, a new community court based in the public library, has focused on assistance rather than punishment. | Continue reading
A new report details the challenges that Houston’s immigrant population faced after Harvey—and offers a glimpse of what might await residents of the Carolinas after Florence. | Continue reading
For some Puerto Rican children, Hurricane Maria was a prolonged crisis that exacerbated serious preexisting problems. | Continue reading
Also: A short guide to Tulsa’s $465 million park, and the toxic legacy of urban industry. | Continue reading
Earthship homes are sturdy and well-insulated, harvest and recycle their own water, and don't have to rely on the electricity grid. | Continue reading
A new report confirms that the U.S. lags behind the rest of the world in mass transit. | Continue reading
Much of Broadway Junction’s character derives from its impressive size, maze-like layout, relative isolation, and a design that contains little regard for conventional beauty. | Continue reading
Britons say their capital is too expensive and crowded for them to live there. | Continue reading
Last week, incoming mayor Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo announced a competition to redesign Mexico City’s young logo. The backlash has been swift. | Continue reading
Streetcred, a new open-source mapping startup, will pay you to map. (And then give the data away for free.) | Continue reading
Embrace pre-fabricated, adaptable homes! Growing inequity, out-of-reach housing prices, and the speed of innovation in energy efficiency and technology demand it. | Continue reading
The $465 million park has a pond, a five-acre adventure playground, a skate park, and much more. | Continue reading
Embrace pre-fabricated, adaptable homes! Growing inequity, out-of-reach housing prices, and the speed of innovation in energy efficiency and technology demand it. | Continue reading
Many Americans still associate LGBTQ life with urban “gayborhoods.” But the Masterpiece Cakeshop case shows how suburbia’s growing sexual diversity is also a source of conflict. | Continue reading
Also: D.C.’s heated battle over tipped workers, and what Republican mayors said at the climate summit. | Continue reading
A new report reveals the corruption and poor building code enforcement that brought down 28 buildings in last year's deadly quake. | Continue reading
Does paying tipped workers the minimum wage spell death for the city's restaurant industry, or dignity for the city's employees? | Continue reading
"Climate should be nonpartisan because our planet demands it." | Continue reading
Large cities with cash-strapped transit agencies would do well to study Japan's rail history | Continue reading
For decades, the Philadelphia police department confiscated the property and cash of criminal suspects, even without convicting them of a crime, and used those seized assets to pay their salaries and buy new equipment. No more. | Continue reading
For months, BART sent license plate information to federal immigration authorities, violating its own sanctuary city policy. | Continue reading