We should push the federal government to lead a movement for a new urbanism, a systematic approach to building up the economies and physical and social infrastructures of American cities.
FORTUNE Small Business | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business
Fortune Small Business ranks the 50 best places to start a small business in the U.S. ...
Harry Moroz | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media
Focusing on the benefits of city living seem to obscure with a rosy tint the issues of crime and poverty, not to mention access and tolerance and equity, with which Bob Herbert wants us to reengage.
BBC | Posted 10.09.2009 | Green
An international team of botanists has compared extinction rates of plants within 22 cities around the world. Both Singapore and New York City in the ...
BBC NEWS | Victoria Gill | Posted 10.06.2009 | Green
Concrete bridges could make better roosts for certain species of bat than natural caves, according to research....
Dr. Judith Rodin | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
The US today hosts World Habitat Day for the first time. It sets a simple question in sharp relief: Will we shape the historic forces driving billions of people to metro regions or will we let these forces shape us?
John Petro | Posted 09.29.2009 | Green
To reduce the country's excessive energy consumption, we need to make our new and existing suburbs more like cities. This means embracing the principles of smart growth and transit-oriented development.
Denver Business Journal | Denver Business Journal | Posted 09.30.2009 | Home
Denver ranks 34th in a new bizjournals study of income growth among 100 large U.S. cities over the last quarter-century. ...
F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 09.24.2009 | Green
Dubai may be the most environmentally unsustainable place on earth, certainly among the most conspicuously extravagant, reportedly with the world's highest per-capita rate of natural resource consumption.
David Byrne | Posted 09.21.2009 | New York
Does living in New York City foster a hard-as-nails, no nonsense attitude? Is that how one would describe the New York state of mind?
F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green
The Jardin du Luxembourg embodies a variety of vistas and experiences, from the majestic old Luxembourg Palace (now the seat of the French Senate), to the pond in the center where kids play with toy boats.
F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
Most small New England cities were once booming industrial centers, but over time they became subject to considerable disinvestment in the form of plant closings, job losses, weakened civic infrastructure, and shrinking tax bases.
Harry Moroz | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
If the federal government does not turn its attention to urban areas soon, not only will city residents suffer disproportionately from the downturn but the entire economic recovery will be slowed.
ABC News | Sarah Lynch | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living
Few enjoy their commute. Just ask Stephen Dinwiddie, M.D., a psychiatrist at the University of Chicago....
F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green
As has been the case with a lot of the Boston Asian Community Development Corporation's great projects and partnerships, someone had a good idea, ran with it, and created just a little more community than there was before in the neighborhood.
F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 09.21.2009 | Green
One of the goals of smart growth must be to create neighborhoods that foster "aging in place."
John F. Wasik | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business
Pedestrian-friendly cities can make huge personal economic sense. If you don't need a car, you can save thousands a year.
Harry Moroz | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics
Bringing Urban and Community Impact Analysis programs back would be a significant step towards unearthing the already existent hidden federal urban agenda.
F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green
Most of the issues of growth, mobility, equity and the environment that we address here are fundamentally regional in character. But our political mechanisms place most of the authority for dealing with them at the smallest levels of local government.
Stephen C. Rose | Posted 08.29.2009 | Business
The enemies remain the car, the superhighway, the notion of endless oil and the willingness to grit teeth and accept the constraints of what passes for life in metrosprawl.
F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
One of the ways in which city life isn't what it used to be is that so much of what used to be public is no longer public. As a result, some of our humanity is lost, to say nothing of efficient travel.
Harry Moroz | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics
While the stimulus package directed $140 billion to state governments, the recovery act sent very little money directly to cities, which would generate longer-term dividends for federalism.
Harry Moroz | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
President Obama seems committed to shifting federal urban policymaking from a reactive, "Marshall Plan"-type strategy to a proactive, cooperative approach.
Angela Glover Blackwell | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
The federal transportation bill working its way through Congress offers a terrific opportunity to invest specifically in urban infrastructure needs.
Harry Moroz | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
Though this is less robust a beginning than urban policy advocates might have liked, Obama will address the Urban and Metropolitan Policy Roundtable, which demonstrates his continued commitment to cities.
Randall Bourscheidt | Posted 11.20.2009 | New York