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Canada’s Strangest Straphanger
…He’s the biggest advocate for expanding a subway line to the far-flung neighborhood of Scarborough. Along with Ford’s native Etobicoke and other parts of outer Toronto, Scarborough was once its own suburban municipality, and was only forced to amalgamate with North America’s fourth largest city in 1998. Today, its residents…
FeaturesGentrification Can’t Be the Theme of Rust Belt City Recovery
In Buffalo, organizers are fighting for development without displacement, parcel by parcel.
FeaturesThe 22 Best Solutions of 2022
Our editors selected our top stories of urban innovation to feature in our annual Solutions of the Year roundup.
FeaturesWant to Invigorate Community Engagement? Break out the Building Blocks.
Hands-on and sensory-based community engagements create new experiences, unlock ways of exploring our urban and natural worlds, and capture new layers of information.
FeaturesHUD Has Blight-Fighting Power in Its Back Pocket
A federal program to sell off underwater mortgages has enriched for-profit real estate investors. What if nonprofits and cities focused on neighborhood stabilization bought all of them instead?
FeaturesThe Black Car Company That People Love to Hate
…to see his service for “being baller” spread to every major city. But in each new locale it hopes to conquer, Uber runs into the interests of an entrenched taxi industry and regulators who don’t know where the app-based company fits into their rulebooks. There’s no better place to understand…
FeaturesIBM’s Department of Education
…be first in line for a job at, you guessed it, IBM. But the $100 billion company’s move into education, which Rupert Murdoch has described as “a $500 billion market in the U.S. alone that is waiting desperately to be transformed,” comes at a time when the tech giant is…
DailyIn Detroit, a Building Is Transformed Into Permanent Housing for Veterans Experiencing Homelessness
Four organizations in the city and a national partner used their relationships and data to reduce homelessness toward “functional zero.”
DailyA Greek Orthodox Church Wants to Build an Internet Cafe on Kansas City’s Dividing Line
The space is meant to spread connectivity east of Troost Avenue.
DailyThree Steps to Making the New Urban Agenda Implementable
Op-Ed: How guidelines for China’s urban development can strengthen the document set to be adopted at Habitat III.
DailyJakarta, sustainable Africa, pyongyangapalooza, spiritual Antarctica, zero-carbon UK, more
New book from urban scholar, Christopher Silver, calls the city of Jakarta “chaotic, yet well planned.”
DailyOakland’s First Pedestrian Safety Czar Wants to Rethink City Streets
After launching Vision Zero efforts in San Francisco, Nicole Ferrara is bringing her inclusive mobility expertise to Oakland’s new DOT.
FeaturesYesterday’s Internet Isn’t Good Enough for Tomorrow’s Cities
Making connectivity more resilient is about more than floods.
FeaturesWhy Jean Quan Failed Oakland’s Grass Roots
…Yet whatever gentrification means for Oakland, it has not led to increased safety. This remains a city where police times are so slow, groups of locals have taken it upon themselves to hold classes about how to administer first aid to gunshot victims. Old divisions, meanwhile, still exist: Residents of…
FeaturesThe Shape of (Housing) Things to Come
How Half a House, WikiHouse and the IKEA effect will change how we design and build our homes.
FeaturesThe Bad Bet That Undid Rotterdam’s Fight Against Climate Change
Despite its reputation as a leader in environmental policy, the Dutch city has failed to do the one thing that would actually slow the pace of global warming: reduce its carbon emissions.
FeaturesAdding Up the True Cost of Rio’s Slum Makeovers
What the international development community can learn from the Brazilian city’s controversial attempt to bring urban renewal to its poorest neighborhoods.
FeaturesDrugs and the City
…much of an economic impact dispensaries could make. Oakland, for instance, earned $1.4 million in taxes last year from only four dispensaries. Writer Zak Stone travels from massive growing operations in suburban shopping centers to the Venice Beach Boardwalk to find out how, and to what extent, medical marijuana will…
FeaturesThe Life and Death of America’s Biggest Redevelopment Program
How California pulled the plug on a $5.6 billion tax increment financing-powered program.
FeaturesDesigning for the Dead: The Perfect City Cemetery
As the meeting point between the living and the dead, cemeteries are peculiarly fraught ground for city planners.