The stir caused by New Zealand minister Julie Anne Genter’s journey to an Auckland hospital says more about us than her. | Continue reading
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Back in the first Bush Administration, Jack Kemp's HUD tried to rein in exclusionary housing restrictions. What happened? | Continue reading
Back in the first Bush Administration, Jack Kemp's HUD tried to rein in exclusionary housing restrictions. What happened? | Continue reading
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
Using GIS technology, three environmental organizations are teaming up with residents to plant 1,000 trees in areas that need it most. | Continue reading
What should or could cities do differently next time a behemoth company solicits bids for its headquarters? | Continue reading
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
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
San Francisco's battles over scooters and poop have one important thing in common. | Continue reading
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
Also: How one kid stopped the contamination of a river, and righting the wrongs of HQ2. | Continue reading
San Francisco's battles over scooters and poop have one important thing in common. | Continue reading
Law students at BYU's LawX Lab are developing software to assist at-risk tenants. | Continue reading
The author of a new book on the history of art and urban renewal in New York explains. | Continue reading
It's getting tougher to use budgetary constraints as a defense. | Continue reading
What should or could cities do differently next time a behemoth company solicits bids for a second headquarters? | Continue reading
The barriers formerly incarcerated people face are creating a housing crisis—and no one is paying attention. | Continue reading
Minneapolis proposes a low-tech but intuitive fix for keeping bikes in order: put down some damn parking spots. | Continue reading
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
Stella Bowles was only 11 when she tested water from Nova Scotia's LaHave River and found high levels of contamination. | Continue reading
Stella Bowles was only 11 when she tested water from Nova Scotia's LaHave River and found high levels of contamination. | Continue reading
A biweekly tour of the ever-expanding cartographic landscape. | Continue reading
Priced out? There may be a city nearby with better salary-to-cost margins. | Continue reading
Meet the tong-wielding, litter-fighting Trash Runners of Shanghai. | Continue reading
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
Also: What brought down the bridge in Genoa? And Ben Carson is a YIMBY now. | Continue reading
From El Paso to Minneapolis, local rail and bus projects are waiting on federal money that should have arrived by now. | Continue reading
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
The disaster killed 26 people and is focusing attention on the current state of the Italy's postwar infrastructure. | Continue reading
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
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
Regulating the number of Uber and Lyft vehicles is only one part of the answer to the city's worsening traffic problem. | Continue reading
Startups that move to Silicon Valley are more likely to attract investment, grow, and innovate. But moving has costs, too. | Continue reading
Also: The Bronx: Don’t call it a comeback, and the science behind biking’s most-feared crash. | Continue reading
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
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
One group is working with landlords and city officials to solidify the future of the Latvian capital’s suburban concrete relics. | Continue reading
A manmade island will soon hold hundreds of affordable homes with the lightest of possible carbon footprints. | Continue reading
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
A judge rejects the city of Memphis’s argument that an unpermitted protest is unlawful and therefore fair game for police surveillance. | Continue reading
Also: Is this America’s nicest bus station? And five designs that help kids navigate cities. | Continue reading
Is the $2-plus billion Salesforce Transit Center going to be San Francisco's High Line? | Continue reading
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
The smog shrouding the city of Patna shaves an average of four years off residents’ lives. | Continue reading
Designing for kids requires close observation and deep empathy, and deserves to be taken seriously, says critic Alexandra Lange. | Continue reading
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