A flood could devastate Honolulu's low-lying tourist zone, but a federal plan to fortify the Ala Wai Canal has met with strong local resistance. | Continue reading
Also today: The most popular CityLab stories of 2019. | Continue reading
Spin's e-scooter workforce in San Francisco has voted to unionize—an e-scooter milestone made possible by a controversial California law. | Continue reading
Economist Jonathan Rothwell explains that a just society wouldn’t reward different professions so unequally. | Continue reading
Also today: Bringing Christmas back downtown, and the rise and fall of New Year’s fitness resolutions, in five charts. | Continue reading
Economist Jonathan Rothwell explains that a just society wouldn’t reward different professions so unequally. | Continue reading
The typical plots of holiday rom-coms involve women finding love in a make-believe village—and getting out of the big city. | Continue reading
Also: The book that captured Paris in the mid-1970s, and the downtown highway that could drive Hartford’s comeback. | Continue reading
The Connecticut capital has been trying to stage a post-industrial recovery. There’s just one big thing in the way: an aging interstate. | Continue reading
A flood could devastate Honolulu's low-lying tourist zone, but a federal plan to fortify the Ala Wai Canal has met with strong local resistance. | Continue reading
Experimental writer Georges Perec meticulously documented the tumult, traffic, and street life of the French capital 45 years ago. | Continue reading
Facing an affordability crisis, the state is floating an “upzoning” bill that would legalize duplex housing in any place that currently bans it. | Continue reading
Also: How racism created an elite, and a ‘memory town’ is coming to your strip mall. | Continue reading
In this conversation with Jonathan Rothwell about his new book, A Republic of Equals, he explains how U.S. racism helped create elite, highly paid professions. | Continue reading
In this conversation with Jonathan Rothwell about his new book, A Republic of Equals, he explains how U.S. racism helped create elite, highly paid professions. | Continue reading
A veteran of municipal transportation regulation advises ride-hail companies on how to make cities into friends, not foes. | Continue reading
The architects' plan calls for shared streets, expanded sidewalks, a pedestrian scramble, and almost 1,000 new trees. | Continue reading
In Portland, Oregon, preparing for the Really Big One means getting to know your neighbors better. | Continue reading
Also: New York City unveils a next-generation trash can, and what have we done to lunch? | 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 history of the American pursuit of the optimized mid-day meal. | Continue reading
Also: The maps that made you, and has the rise of Uber led to binge drinking? | Continue reading
The Supreme Court is refusing to hear a case about banning sleeping on the streets, but homeless advocates are bracing for an executive order. | Continue reading
From CityLab’s mailbag: Here are personal stories from readers about maps that made a difference. | Continue reading
New research suggests that ride-hailing is associated with increases in drinking behaviors in U.S. cities and metro areas. | Continue reading
“Growing Up Boulder” is designed to give both parents and their kids access to amenities in the Colorado city. | Continue reading
The Missouri city is the first major one in the U.S. to offer no-cost public transportation. | Continue reading
The McHarg Center's "2100 Project" tries to visualize exactly how the warming world will dramatically reshape the United States. | Continue reading
Also: An unintended consequence of universal pre-K, and change comes to a suburb that loved sprawl. | Continue reading
A political shift in Oakland County, Michigan, brings a new county executive, David Coulter, and a different outlook on regional transit. | Continue reading
Planner Jeff Speck leads a video tour of four different street redesigns. | Continue reading
12 international subway maps, unified through design. | Continue reading
An unintended consequence of free school programs for three- and four-year-olds is a reduction in the supply of affordable child care for kids younger than two. | Continue reading
Also: Why Kansas City’s free transit experiment matters, and how Friday the 13th could actually be a lucky day. | Continue reading
The Missouri city is the first major one in the U.S. to offer no-cost public transportation. | Continue reading
Mayor Bill de Blasio is expanding New York's landmark tenant protections, and a pair of U.S. senators have introduced the Eviction Crisis Act. | Continue reading
Hundreds of thousands of migratory birds smash into the city’s buildings every year. The city council just passed a bill to cut back on the carnage. | Continue reading
NYC’s task force on algorithms was supposed to be a beacon of transparent government. It couldn’t even gain access to basic information. | Continue reading
Also: Mapping an America changed by climate, and grocery stores near Seattle are getting vertical farms. | Continue reading
The McHarg Center's "2100 Project" tries to visualize exactly how the warming world will dramatically reshape the United States. | Continue reading
The QFC stores in Bellevue and Kirkland, Washington, feature modular vertical farms that grow lettuce and herbs for customers to buy. | Continue reading
Developed by researchers at the Brookings Institution, the index is dominated by the San Francisco Bay area, New York, Los Angeles, and the Boston-Cambridge area. | Continue reading
The White House's new homelessness czar, Robert Marbut Jr., promotes a punitive model for providing homeless services. | Continue reading
Also: Why car-free streets will soon be the norm, and don’t alienate the suburbs on climate. | Continue reading
In California, Uber is quietly changing a policy that’s been used as a safeguard against discrimination. | Continue reading
At the end of their life, no one ever said: "I wish I'd spent more time in a car." | Continue reading
At the end of their life, no one ever said: "I wish I'd spent more time in a car." | Continue reading