The plan to ban private cars from one of the city’s busiest—and most dangerous—downtown thoroughfares enjoys a remarkable level of local support. | Continue reading
The activist group Moms 4 Housing occupied a vacant home in Oakland to draw attention to the city’s affordability crisis. They ended up launching a movement. | Continue reading
Dockless e-scooters swept cities worldwide in 2018 and 2019. In 2020, expect the battery-powered micromobility revolution to take a new direction. | Continue reading
Dockless e-scooters swept cities worldwide in 2018 and 2019. In 2020, expect the battery-powered micromobility revolution to take a new direction. | Continue reading
An Apartment List report reveals the cities apartment-hunters are targeting for their next move—and shows that tales of a California exodus may be overstated. | Continue reading
The automaker-turned-mobility-company announced last week it wants to build a living, breathing urban laboratory from the ground up in Japan. | Continue reading
In fast-gentrifying Pittsburgh, homeowners say that cash-for-homes buyers are reporting code violations to encourage them to sell. | Continue reading
An Apartment List report reveals the cities apartment-hunters are targeting for their next move—and shows that tales of a California exodus may be overstated. | Continue reading
Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg's $1 trillion plan echoes the data-led approach he used as mayor. | Continue reading
A new study suggests yet another lingering effect of 1930s-era redlining: extreme heat. | Continue reading
As bed-in-a-box startup Casper files for an IPO, the buzzy brand is betting that the next big thing in sleep is brick-and-mortar retail outlets. | Continue reading
Among Mayor Anne Hidalgo's next ambitious ideas: Make the city center “100 percent bicycle” and spend billions converting office space into housing. | Continue reading
Among Mayor Anne Hidalgo's next ambitious ideas: Make the city center “100 percent bicycle” and spend billions converting office space into housing. | Continue reading
According to the latest Menino Survey of Mayors, climate change and traffic safety are seen as urgent urban issues. But many city leaders are not eager to make big changes. | Continue reading
In a time of austere federal funding, cheaper-than-a-subway urban mass transit seemed to make sense. | Continue reading
A plea for basic city literacy. | Continue reading
In a time of austere federal funding, cheaper-than-a-subway urban mass transit seemed to make sense. | Continue reading
The internet's premier urbanist meme-makers are getting serious about political change. | Continue reading
Starting in the late 19th century, Paris's Chambres de Bonne combined different classes under a single roof. | Continue reading
Developer James Rouse pioneered the tourist-friendly festival marketplace model in his hometown. Now Harborplace is looking for a new place in a changed city. | Continue reading
A different kind of wealth distribution in 17th-century Amsterdam paved the way for its iconic home design. | Continue reading
Proposition E would put a moratorium on new commercial real estate in San Francisco if affordable housing goals aren’t met. | Continue reading
A different kind of wealth distribution in 17th-century Amsterdam paved the way for its quintessential home design. | Continue reading
A retro-themed, octopus-filled political poster from the New York governor gets mixed reviews from design experts. | Continue reading
Proposition E would put a moratorium on new commercial real estate in San Francisco if affordable housing goals aren’t met. | Continue reading
An uptick in bus, subway, and light-rail riders in 2019 was driven by gains in two large cities. | Continue reading
An uptick in bus, subway, and light-rail riders in 2019 was driven by gains in two large cities. | Continue reading
Why do mid-rise tenements dominate Berlin? The Mietskaserne, or “rental barracks,” have shaped the city's culture and its counterculture. | Continue reading
The most common residential floor plans in European cities offer a window into urban history and culture. In London, it’s the “two-up, two-down” row house. | Continue reading
Are navigation apps creating more problems than they’re solving? | Continue reading
The most common residential floor plans in European cities offer a window into urban history and culture. In London, it’s the “two-up, two-down” row house. | Continue reading
The Democratic candidate promises to tackle traffic safety and climate change along with highway-building and public transportation. | Continue reading
Livability rankings normally don’t factor in the lived experiences of non-white people, and black women in particular. | Continue reading
A project called Mapping Prejudice is tracking the enduring patterns created by the racial housing covenants of the early 20th century. | Continue reading
HUD's pledge to reverse an Obama-era mandate on discrimination comes as New York City releases its own fair housing blueprint. | Continue reading
A project called Mapping Prejudice is tracking the enduring patterns created by the racial housing covenants of the early 20th century. | Continue reading
Civic boosters were once convinced that a new kind of urban attraction, the science center, could revive American downtowns. | Continue reading
In the 1980s and '90s, Jack Kemp tried to revitalize America’s most distressed neighborhoods. It didn’t work, but cities are still using his approach. | Continue reading
New York City is investing an unprecedented amount—$40 million—in hopes of getting the city’s most elusive residents to fill out the 2020 Census. | Continue reading
Facing declining birthrates and rural depopulation, hundreds of municipalities in Japan will soon vanish. But some towns are fighting back. | Continue reading
Maryland joins Virginia with a new proposal to tackle the affordable housing crisis. And it’s sweeping in its ambition. | Continue reading
Over the last 40 years, environmental lead contamination has been greatly reduced in U.S. cities. But not for everyone. | Continue reading
The design that won New York City's BetterBin competition—a lightweight but heavy-duty plastic bin inside a metal stand—beat out some 200 other entries. | Continue reading
A final note from the author of the CityLab Daily. | Continue reading
The city acquired the 600-plus acres of Hays Woods, once used for mining and munitions, in 2016, but the work of restoring the land has only just begun. | Continue reading
Also: More of CityLab’s most popular stories of 2019, and a next-generation trash bin. | Continue reading
Inequality. Multimodal transportation. New kinds of housing advocacy. City literacy. These are the concepts that may come to define the decade. | Continue reading
During the 2010s, data-gathering companies like Uber, Airbnb, and Amazon fundamentally changed how move live and move through the physical world. | Continue reading