A campaign dubbed Our Homes, Our Health is pressuring lawmakers to suspend rent and mortgage payments nationwide during the coronavirus crisis. | Continue reading
Even during social distancing, you can time-travel back. Here's how I explored the history of my own street. | Continue reading
Cholera and tuberculosis outbreaks transformed the design and technology of the home bathroom. Will Covid-19 inspire a new wave of hygiene innovation? | Continue reading
From drive-through rallies to video demonstrations, the public resistance of the coronavirus era adopts new strategies, and advances very different causes. | Continue reading
Hard-hit Milan may be leading the way in reimagining how transit and commuting patterns could change as cities emerge from coronavirus shutdowns. | Continue reading
It's #sneckdown season. | Continue reading
For those enduring the mental and emotional challenge of social isolation during coronavirus, cold-weather concepts like hygge offer insights on how to cope. | Continue reading
Before coronavirus transformed urban life, New York had achieved a massive public health success, thanks in part to the city’s now-maligned layout. | Continue reading
Subway and bus systems in the U.S. face financial peril as ridership collapses due to lockdowns. To keep transit alive, here’s a playbook for immediate and long-term fixes. | Continue reading
Why is Governor Brian Kemp so eager to reopen hair salons and restaurants? The state’s million-plus jobless claims might be a big part of this controversial move. | Continue reading
Covid-19 has triggered a boom in interdisciplinary research as physicians, public health experts, and environmental scientists team up to fight the pandemic. | Continue reading
To have a balcony during coronavirus is to enjoy fresh air without anxiety. A lack of private outdoor spaces in many cities is partly by design. | Continue reading
Early data show worse outcomes for Americans of color from Covid-19. This isn’t only a reflection of historic inequality. The response is creating inequality, too. | Continue reading
Hard-hit Milan may be leading the way in reimagining how transit and commuting patterns could change as cities emerge from coronavirus shutdowns. | Continue reading
As multistate pacts emerge across the U.S., a once-obscure planning framework is being used to help coordinate reopening local economies. | Continue reading
The spread of Covid-19 into communities long suffering from environmental inequities could spell disaster for local residents, like in Louisville, Kentucky. | Continue reading
A paper claims that the nation’s largest transit system made NYC a Covid-19 hot spot. But experts say there are too many unknowns to link ridership to infection rates. | Continue reading
Immigrant deportation policies forced some nurses and medical support workers out of the U.K. before the coronavirus pandemic. Now the U.K. needs them. | Continue reading
America’s smaller towns and cities face a fiscal calamity. The next federal stimulus must save the local governments that face a financial crisis due to the coronavirus. | Continue reading
To have a balcony during coronavirus is to enjoy fresh air without anxiety. A lack of private outdoor spaces in many cities is partly by design. | Continue reading
There’s a long history of blaming urban areas rather than economic factors for physical and moral ills. But density can be an asset for fighting coronavirus. | Continue reading
Cities like San Francisco and New York City are moving shelter residents to hotels as Covid-19 spreads. But federal authorities have a different solution. | Continue reading
The California city isn’t the first to experiment with car restrictions in the coronavirus pandemic, but its plan to discourage drivers is the most extensive. | Continue reading
Health-care workers have been a primary source for exposing the challenges of treating coronavirus. But they still face losing their jobs over whistleblowing. | Continue reading
The new PBS documentary connects the de-institutionalization movement that emptied postwar psychiatric hospitals with the surge of homelessness in U.S. cities. | Continue reading
Schemes to privatize the U.S. Postal Service are being debated anew as coronavirus lockdowns drive mail volume down. But there’s an equally radical alternative. | Continue reading
The shared e-scooter services that proliferated in cities before the coronavirus pandemic now face a bleak financial outlook. Should cities help them survive? | Continue reading
Tight floor plans, “sanity” walks, and the people you miss seeing: They turned up in your homemade maps of life during the coronavirus pandemic. | Continue reading
As data emerges that African Americans are suffering disproportionately from Covid-19, medical practices from past epidemics shed light on a history of racism. | Continue reading
In booming Houston, Texas, a nonprofit community land trust offers the promise of permanent housing affordability. You just have to give up ownership of your land. | Continue reading
Bus drivers and subway workers are dying from coronavirus at an alarming rate, and transit union leaders are calling for aggressive action to make them safer. | Continue reading
CityLab is continuing to cover how Covid-19 is impacting our cities. We want your feedback and ideas. | Continue reading
Cholera and tuberculosis outbreaks transformed the design and technology of the home bathroom. Will Covid-19 inspire a new wave of hygiene innovation? | Continue reading
Being a model local citizen during coronavirus requires us to upend some of our ingrained neighborly behaviors. Here’s how to adopt new best practices. | Continue reading
Some aspects of the coronavirus pandemic are eerily reminiscent of the AIDS crisis — others are unrecognizable. | Continue reading
The coronavirus crisis had made clear to more American people and politicians what was true all along: Giving workers a social safety net benefits us all. | Continue reading
Campaign events are canceled, canvassers are homebound, and ballot initiatives are stalled as coronavirus lockdowns limit voter-led democratic efforts. | Continue reading
For city residents, equitable access to local green space is more than a coronavirus-era amenity. It’s critical for physical, emotional, and mental health. | Continue reading
Mixed messages on the legal concept of preemption are confusing cities that want to pass stronger Covid-19 actions, like closed beaches and shelter in place. | Continue reading
With cities in lockdown and workplaces closed, the big drop in traffic and transit riders allows road repair and construction projects to rush forward. | Continue reading
Now more than ever, public transportation is not just about ridership. Buses, trains, and subways make urban civilization possible. | Continue reading
As reports of harassment and assault against Asian Americans increase, community advocates are finding new ways to tackle the spread of xenophobia. | Continue reading
Places like New York, Miami and Las Vegas have a higher share of the workforce in jobs with close proximity to others, putting them at greater Covid-19 risk. | Continue reading
To sew masks, build protective gear, and fabricate medical equipment needed for Covid-19, networks of small-scale DIY manufacturers are springing up nationwide. | Continue reading
In the U.K., researchers believe they can train dogs to sniff out the distinctive odor of coronavirus, potentially assisting in mass infection screening efforts. | Continue reading
The coronavirus crisis stands to dramatically reshape cities around the world. But the biggest revolutions in urban space may have begun before the pandemic. | Continue reading
The short-term rental market is reeling from the coronavirus-driven tourism collapse. Can the industry’s dominant player stage a comeback after lockdowns lift? | Continue reading
What do we know so far about the types of places that are more susceptible to the spread of Covid-19? In the U.S., density is just the beginning of the story. | Continue reading