“People don’t like lawns. That’s the irony.”

Cars have made American cities uglier and more dangerous. Here’s the solution.

The propaganda around Cop City is all wrong: Public safety and green space go hand in hand.

On loving and loathing some of America’s most common public spaces

More people are dying in traffic crashes. Is pandemic rage to blame?

Wastewater is a crucial epidemiological tool for tracking Covid-19. It’s only going to get more important as climate change accelerates.

In the 1980s, a government program helped Black families buy new homes amid fires and flight. Now that generation is moving south, as the neighborhood faces a new threat: affordability.

Disease changes urban life. But humans have to decide what shape that change takes.

Navigating U.S. cities with small humans in tow can be a nightmare. The Build Back Better and infrastructure bills offer some funding to change that.

Despite Marc Lore’s ambitions for Telosa, water wars seem more likely than flying cars in our dystopian near future.

How the Covid lockdown is reconfiguring the nexus of getting and spending

The experience of our cities has been radically transformed by protest. Which visions of the future do these moments impart?

Wider sidewalks and no-car zones are the new hot commodity. They could even help businesses reopen.

After the pandemic, the rich will barricade themselves further. National chains will supplant local businesses. And the gig economy will explode.

These photos offer a stark reminder that, 22 years after apartheid, the country is still defined by massive inequality and stark segregation.

Why libertarians adore Jane Jacobs.

You've heard about how robocars are going to upend the economy. But have you thought about what they'll do to urban space?

Those left behind by Silicon Valley’s technology boom struggle to stay in the place they call home.

A new model for urban renewal.

Why you can't engineer creativity with "innovation districts"