But as the sport’s popularity wanes, neighbors often fight to limit housing development on abandoned greens. | Continue reading
After decades of aggressive 'urban renewal' by rich institutions in low-income communities, Columbia’s 1968 protests ushered in an era of Community Benefits Agreements. Why won't the Obama Center won’t sign one in Chicago? | Continue reading
A new study finds that cultural capital is not an insignificant add-on, but a key contributor to urban economic growth. | Continue reading
The United States is an amalgam of places and people. As long as essential values are preserved we should appreciate the ability of local government to respond to unique communities. | Continue reading
Also: Will Uber and Lyft become different things? And auditioning for the subway. | Continue reading
Director Alejandro González Iñárritu has created a virtual-reality film that recreates the experience of crossing the U.S. border. | Continue reading
A biweekly tour of the ever-expanding cartographic landscape. | Continue reading
Also: Is it time to reconsider traffic stops? And the hidden forces that shape cities. | Continue reading
The city’s latest move to limit vacation rentals could come in handy for other cities trying out their own regulations. | Continue reading
What researchers found after analyzing data gathered from 20 million stops in North Carolina. | Continue reading
The Sladda bike was an attempt to help city-dwellers ease into a life without cars. | Continue reading
Non-native animals and plants often arrive in cities by happenstance and carve out ecological niches for themselves. But if cities were more deliberate about biodiversity, they'd take in species that are struggling elsewhere. | Continue reading
Ricky Burdett of the London School of Economics argues that institutions, not leaders or planners, have the biggest impact on how cities transform over time. | Continue reading
Each year, hundreds of musicians vie to see their name not in lights, but in pink, on a banner indicating they’ve earned official status to perform in New York City’s subway stations. | Continue reading
Mayors, thought leaders, and practitioners weigh in on the mindsets needed to get past short-termism, and how to think about the piviotal points in urban history. | Continue reading
Since the attorney general announced a zero tolerance policy, the likely impact has been immediate. | Continue reading
Leading universities in the U.S. help spur local innovation and startups—but they also contribute to rising local inequality. | Continue reading
Also: Watch the suburbs in today’s elections, and what Pyeongchang looks like after the Olympics. | Continue reading
Since the first "regional character," a samurai cat named Hikonyan, appeared in 2007, Japan has kept churning out cute, weird, and occasionally rogue local mascots. | Continue reading
Spending time by yourself in nature is good for mental health, and can make you a better leader. | Continue reading
Twenty years ago, the U.S. Green Building Council piloted its LEED certification, which has reshaped architecture and real estate. But how much does it really dent buildings’ energy use? | Continue reading
The age of the single-use plastic beverage utensil is ending. | Continue reading
Three months after the Olympics, the crowds are gone and residents wonder about the future. | Continue reading
In San Juan, an improvised memorial of thousands of shoes has become the focal point for grief and anger after the publication of a new, much higher estimated death count. | Continue reading
Slowly, native culture seems to be emerging from the shadows. | Continue reading
Also: The climate refugees of Maryland, and discussing the far-out future of cities. | Continue reading
In 1983, neighbors on an unusual block agreed to create a more open, shared space behind their homes. What they built remains a special slice of nature in a bustling city. | Continue reading
Mayors, thought leaders, and practitioners weigh in on the mindsets needed to get past short-termism, and how to think about the piviotal points in urban history. | Continue reading
In a real-life Killmonger-T’Challa story, a writer of Kenyan origin reflects on her experience as an immigrant in America and her struggle to find bonds with black Americans. | Continue reading
Don't blame Uber for recent transit ridership drops. | Continue reading
From mapping apps to the blockchain, new tools are intended to give cities the information they need to address this growing challenge. | Continue reading
One year after Trump pulled out of the international climate agreement, city and state coalitions are setting new goals. | Continue reading
A report from Ellicott City, Maryland, where the toll of a warming world has already arrived. | Continue reading
The campaign has become as much about candidate biographies, super PAC money, and the city’s unique ranked choice voting system as it is about issues like homelessness and property crime. | Continue reading
Toni Griffin, one of the leading black women in architecture and design, is leading her students at Harvard in envisioning and designing the "just city." And it looks different in Boston than it does in Rotterdam. | Continue reading
FEMA and the Red Cross talk a good game, but the disability community is skeptical. | Continue reading
Also: We’re not prepared for hurricane season, and Vermont will pay remote workers to move there. | Continue reading
Bodys Isek Kingelez built stunning, colorful models to help people see the magnificent places in his mind. | Continue reading
The late journalist and novelist was an exuberant chronicler of urban settings | Continue reading
More citizens in Georgia's capital are taking action to improve the air they breathe and protect public space. | Continue reading
A new bill signed into law Wednesday will pay remote workers $5,000 a year for two years to make the Green Mountain State their home, as long as their employer is based somewhere else. | Continue reading
After Moshe Safdie’s thesis project in Montreal brought him instant fame in 1967, a chance to build a new community in Baltimore turned into a reality check. | Continue reading
Also: Why cities should support street vendors, and the tech that’s changing how cities help the homeless. | Continue reading
Floods like the one that devastated Ellicott City on Sunday are not “natural” disasters outside our control—we can reduce the impacts and risks if we resolve to. | Continue reading
The iconic yellow vehicles are due for a green makeover. | Continue reading
From mapping apps to the blockchain, new tools are giving cities the information they need to address this growing challenge in their communities. | Continue reading