A New Zealand Politician Biked to the Hospital to Give Birth. So What?

The stir caused by New Zealand minister Julie Anne Genter’s journey to an Auckland hospital says more about us than her. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

CityLab Daily: Embracing the E-Bike

Also: Remembering a bipartisan push against exclusionary zoning, and the homelessness problem we don’t talk about. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

What a Bipartisan Push Against Exclusionary Zoning Looks Like

Back in the first Bush Administration, Jack Kemp's HUD tried to rein in exclusionary housing restrictions. What happened? | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

What a Bipartisan Push Against Exclusionary Zoning Looks Like

Back in the first Bush Administration, Jack Kemp's HUD tried to rein in exclusionary housing restrictions. What happened? | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

The Mass Grave Beneath a Texas Suburb

The recent discovery of bodies of black prison laborers beneath a construction site in Sugar Land, Texas, is forcing the state to confront hard questions about preservation and development. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Cooling Dallas’s Concrete Jungle

Using GIS technology, three environmental organizations are teaming up with residents to plant 1,000 trees in areas that need it most. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Righting the Wrongs of Amazon HQ2

What should or could cities do differently next time a behemoth company solicits bids for its headquarters? | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Can Elon Musk Save Baseball?

The Tesla CEO is proposing a 3.6 mile tunnel to help get L.A. fans to the stadium. They definitely need all the help they can get. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Why Should Cities Bear the Cost of Trump’s Rallies?

Donald Trump think Washington, D.C. charged him too much to host his parade. But he has a habit of not paying his city bills. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

San Francisco's Scooter and Poop Wars Hit the Sidewalk

San Francisco's battles over scooters and poop have one important thing in common. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

An Early Glimpse of London's Eternally Somber Euston Station

In a city where most older buildings were still caulked with a thick layer of Dickensian coal soot by 1968, the modern Euston station must have looked like a time capsule from the future. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

CityLab Daily: Sidewalks Are a Dumping Ground for Bad Urban Policy

Also: How one kid stopped the contamination of a river, and righting the wrongs of HQ2. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

What Ends Up On the Sidewalk

San Francisco's battles over scooters and poop have one important thing in common. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Is There a Better Way to Battle Evictions?

Law students at BYU's LawX Lab are developing software to assist at-risk tenants. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

The Public Art of Robert Moses’s New York

The author of a new book on the history of art and urban renewal in New York explains. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Crumbling Sidewalks Become a Legal Battleground

It's getting tougher to use budgetary constraints as a defense. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Righting the Wrongs of Amazon HQ2

What should or could cities do differently next time a behemoth company solicits bids for a second headquarters? | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

The Homelessness Problem We Don’t Talk About

The barriers formerly incarcerated people face are creating a housing crisis—and no one is paying attention. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Can Minnesota Get Dockless Bikesharing to Play Nice?

Minneapolis proposes a low-tech but intuitive fix for keeping bikes in order: put down some damn parking spots. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

CityLab Daily: The Rising Toll of the Drug Epidemic

Also: The cities where you get the most bang for your buck, and what’s the deal with giant games in parks and plazas? | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

How One Child Stopped the Contamination of a River

Stella Bowles was only 11 when she tested water from Nova Scotia's LaHave River and found high levels of contamination. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

How One Kid Stopped the Contamination of a River

Stella Bowles was only 11 when she tested water from Nova Scotia's LaHave River and found high levels of contamination. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

MapLab: Satellites on Fire

A biweekly tour of the ever-expanding cartographic landscape. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

The Cities Where You Get the Biggest Bang for Your Buck

Priced out? There may be a city nearby with better salary-to-cost margins. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Tong-Wielding ‘Trash Runners’ Fight Litter in Shanghai

Meet the tong-wielding, litter-fighting Trash Runners of Shanghai. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

The Mass Grave Beneath a Texas Suburb

The recent discovery of bodies of black prison laborers beneath a construction site in Sugar Land, Texas, is forcing the state to confront hard questions about preservation and development. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

CityLab Daily: Where’s the Transit Money?

Also: What brought down the bridge in Genoa? And Ben Carson is a YIMBY now. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

The $1.4 Billion Transit Fund the U.S. Government Won’t Release

From El Paso to Minneapolis, local rail and bus projects are waiting on federal money that should have arrived by now. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Building London’s Town of the Future

When the film, created by the Greater London Council, came out, the paint was barely dry on many of the community's gleaming towers and stepped housing terraces, and the whole place must have seemed fresh and new. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

After a Bridge Falls in Genoa, Fears Rise About Italy’s Infrastructure

The disaster killed 26 people and is focusing attention on the current state of the Italy's postwar infrastructure. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

An Impressive, Unnecessary, Multi-City Bridge

Beijing hopes to unite Hong Kong, Zhuhai, and Macau, along with other metropolises of the Pearl River Delta, into a megacity cluster under the “Greater Bay Area” scheme with transit links like the bridge playing an important role—although it has yet to release many details. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Ben Carson's New Push Against Fair-Housing Rules Has a NIMBY Twist

The HUD secretary's new attempt to roll back an Obama-era fair-housing rule has him wading into battle against exclusionary zoning. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Reining in Ride Hailing Is Critical

Regulating the number of Uber and Lyft vehicles is only one part of the answer to the city's worsening traffic problem. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Why Some Startups Move to the Bay Area (But Most Stay Put)

Startups that move to Silicon Valley are more likely to attract investment, grow, and innovate. But moving has costs, too. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

CityLab Daily: Scooters on Strike

Also: The Bronx: Don’t call it a comeback, and the science behind biking’s most-feared crash. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

The Global Tourism Backlash

A surge in tourism has led to a backlash in cities where residents feel overrun. But these cities can use tourism to their own benefit. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

The Bronx: Don’t Call It a Comeback

These Bronx natives say that in the midst of rapid gentrification, they are taking control and offering the borough the cultural experiences that they once had to venture downtown to find. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Reclaiming Riga’s Soviet Architecture

One group is working with landlords and city officials to solidify the future of the Latvian capital’s suburban concrete relics. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Here Comes Amsterdam’s Lean, Green Community on an Artificial Island

A manmade island will soon hold hundreds of affordable homes with the lightest of possible carbon footprints. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Science Tackles the Nasty ‘Right Hook,’ Biking’s Most-Feared Crash

Researchers in one of North America's deadliest cities for pedestrian and cyclists outfitted motorists with eye-tracking devices to see if they were checking for bicycles. Most weren't. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Courts to Memphis: No, Spying on Protesters Is Not Good Police Work

A judge rejects the city of Memphis’s argument that an unpermitted protest is unlawful and therefore fair game for police surveillance. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

CityLab Daily: How D.C. Drowned Out the White Nationalists

Also: Is this America’s nicest bus station? And five designs that help kids navigate cities. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Is This America’s Nicest Bus Station?

Is the $2-plus billion Salesforce Transit Center going to be San Francisco's High Line? | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Why D.C. Drowned Out the White Nationalists

The second Unite the Right rally saw an emaciated turnout. But residents of Washington, D.C. have something of a tradition of showing up to oppose them. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Gasping for Air in India’s Industrial North

The smog shrouding the city of Patna shaves an average of four years off residents’ lives. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

How Kids Learn to Navigate the City (and the World), in Five Designs

Designing for kids requires close observation and deep empathy, and deserves to be taken seriously, says critic Alexandra Lange. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

The Case for Rooms

Build more walls! | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Yes, Black People Brew Beer, Too

As craft beer breweries pop up in cities across America, Michael Potter and Day Bracey want to make sure that African American brewers are not left off the map. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago