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Urban Wonk
The Problem With Calling Cities 'Post-Industrial'
It's time to come up with a new way of thinking and talking about places like Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland.
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New Chicago Plan: Pedestrians Come First
The city's new Complete Streets Design Guidelines creates a paradigm shift in how road crews and transportation workers should look at shared streets.
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Could Kickstarter Work as a Tool for Neighborhood Economic Development?
The city of Chicago tries to leverage the platform better known for funding design projects and cutting-edge products.
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The Pacific Trash Vortex Has a Counterpart in the Great Lakes
Scientists monitoring Lake Erie have found tons of harmful plastic debris known as microplastics or "nurdles."
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The Big Fix
After the School Closings, the Real Estate Mess
As school districts downsize, they leave behind shuttered buildings. Finding new uses for them can be difficult, to say the least.
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Charts
The Completely Puzzling Relationship Between City Population and Parks
Why do some cities – and neighborhoods – have so much more "urban nature" than others?
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Maps
America's Most Post-Industrial Metros
The cities that lead America's transition from a goods-producing to service economy.
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Bizarre Preservation Fixation of the Day: Ronald Reagan's Childhood Home
Two years of Reagan's youth wasn't enough to save this apartment house.
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Gay Marriage and the Power of Cities to Change the Country
What was once popular opinion – and public policy – in San Francisco could soon be the national norm.
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12 Fresh Ideas for Transforming the Places We Live With Open Data
A few of the 886 proposals from the Knight Foundation's latest open government news challenge.
