Catholicism Mapping San Francisco's Human Waste Challenge - 132,562 Cases Reported In The Public Way Since 2008Forbes - Adam AndrzejewskiThe broader San Francisco Bay Area can also claim Silicon Valley and its booming economy. But the city itself is in trouble. Today, San Francisco hosts an estimated homeless population of 7,500 people.
Cities 3 Reasons Cities Are Rising in Influence and Power on the Global StageCityLabPerspective Cities Are Rising in Influence and Power on the Global Stage Cities are challenging their invisibility in global governance structures, like the United Nations, by forging new alliances to
New York University The Hidden Horror of Hudson Yards Is How It Was FinancedCityLab - Kriston CappsManhattan’s new luxury mega-project was partially bankrolled by an investor visa program called EB-5, which was meant to help poverty-stricken areas. Since its official unveiling last month, critics have
Northern California Holy cow! California may get rid of single-family zoningLos Angeles Times - Kerry CavanaughCalifornia may be on the verge of eliminating single-family zoning statewide. This is huge. And it’s a sign of how quickly the politics around housing and land use have shifted in just the last year. Wednesday,
Cities Four principles for the future of city streetsmedium.com - Willa Ng Cities can leverage design and technology to re-think our streets for pedestrians, bikes, and transit. In the 1920s, American cities debated a …
Missouri River The Missouri River Is Just Going to Keep On FloodingBloomberg - Justin Fox The Missouri River used to be out of control. “It cuts corners, runs around at nights, fills itself with snags and traveling sandbars, lunches on …
College & University The Persistent Economic Advantage of America’s SuburbsCityLab - Richard FloridaA new study finds that suburban neighborhoods outperform urban ones across the board. The rise of the city and the decline of the suburbs has emerged as a common meme in recent years. The young, the educated,
Autonomous Vehicle Smart city planners are rethinking parking by getting rid of itDigital Trends Joni Mitchell sang, “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.” But could parking lots soon become extinct, with the lost paradise making a …
Commuting Commuters to This 1 U.S. City Have It Worse Than Anyone Else in America. Here Are the DetailsInc Magazine - By Bill Murphy Jr.Here's a conversation tip. Almost no matter where you are, if you want to get a group of strangers talking, ask them about their commutes. Everyone has an opinion. Either they're griping, or they're proud
6 Rules for Better, More Inclusive Economic Development in CitiesCityLabPerspective Urban leaders need to kick the incentive habit and take a more inclusive approach to growing local economies. Feb 26, 2019 Richard Florida Richard Florida is co-founder and editor at large
The Geography of America’s Mobile and ‘Stuck,’ MappedCityLab - Richard FloridaThe United States is facing a new class distinction: those who are mobile across state lines, and those who are stuck. There is little doubt that America’s class structure is changing. The decline of working
Want to visualize inequality? View cities from aboveNational Geographic - Sydney CombsCulture & HistoryPicture Stories Aerial pictures of adjoining neighborhoods reveal how cities around the world are unevenly developed. 1 Minute Read By Sydney Combs Photographs by Johnny Miller From the
‘Slow streets’ pilot proposed for the Financial DistrictCurbed - Caroline SpivackA neighborhood group is looking to transform the Financial District’s web of narrow roads into a pedestrian haven. The Financial District Neighborhood Association issued a report last week calling for
Loneliness Lonely Together: The plight of urban isolationcbc.ca - CBC Radio · Urban loneliness is a virtual pandemic. Even though there have never been as many cities across the world as there are right now with such high …
Faced with Climate Impacts, Communities Turn to Green Infrastructureasla.org - Jared Green Climate change is causing seas to rise, flooding to worsen, and hurricanes and wildfires to become more destructive, all of which puts our …
New York City Inside Hudson Yards, Manhattan’s Opulent New Mini-CityCityLab - James S. RussellWith super-tall glass towers, a luxury mall, and a ’grammable urban spectacle, Hudson Yards is very much a development of its time. Great, jagged slits of sky separate the skyscrapers that have risen reflective
A Former Chicago Project Will Become A Museum Dedicated To Public HousingFast Company - By Adele PetersThe space will tell the stories of three families who once lived in the building, and host events to engage visitors in much-needed discussions around affordable housing and equitable communities. When
John McCain Competition sparks re-imagination of the Salt River and John McCain's visionazcentral.com - Victor Ren, Arizona Republic A new campaign is calling on architects and city planners to pitch redevelopment ideas for the Rio Salado and communities surrounding it. The …
Why Did America Give Up on Mass Transit? (Don't Blame Cars.)CityLab - Jonathan EnglishStreetcar, bus, and metro systems have been ignoring one lesson for 100 years: Service drives demand. One hundred years ago, the United States had a public transportation system that was the envy of the
The Next Wave: Predicting the future of coffee in New York Citymedium.com By Mario Aksiyote ToposBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Sep 7, 2017 In this article we look at New York City through the lens of coffee in an attempt to …
How ‘Social Infrastructure’ Can Knit America TogetherCityLab - Richard FloridaEric Klinenberg, author of Palaces for the People, talks about how schools, libraries, and other institutions can restore a sense of common purpose in America. America is at a crossroads: Our nation is
A safer New Orleans for bikes? Temporary, protected lanes coming to downtown streetstheadvocate.com - Jeff Adelson A bicycling advocacy organization will begin installing temporary, protected bike lanes from Central City through the French Quarter next week to …
New renderings for Union Station office tower acquiredsuntimes.com - Michael Sneed Click. Click. Snap. Snap. It was time to head back to the drawing board. Sneed has obtained exclusive renderings of Union Station’s newly revamped …
Work Sprawl: What Does It Mean for City Planning?CityLabPerspective Work Habits Are Changing: Cities Need to Keep Up What does work sprawl mean for urban planning? Aug 31, 2018 Filipa Pajević Ph.D. student at the School of Urban Planning, McGill University
The rise of New York’s new leisure waterfrontCurbed - Karrie JacobsOne sunny afternoon about a year ago, I rendezvoused with two old friends for a beer. Each of us arrived on a CitiBike from our respective neighborhoods. We convened at a newly opened outdoor bar—really,
Where Chicago Trounces New York: Fixing Mass TransitThe New York Times - By WINNIE HUCHICAGO — Like New York’s subway, it is another century-old system struggling to keep up with the transit demands of a booming city. It, too, has been plagued by crumbling tracks, antiquated signals and
Why Public Transportation Works Better Outside the U.S.CityLab - Jonathan EnglishThe widespread failure of American mass transit is usually blamed on cheap gas and suburban sprawl. But the full story of why other countries succeed is more complicated. When it comes to the quality public
Feedback, Ideas Sought For Lincoln Square Master PlanPatch - Amber Fisher CHICAGO — The Lincoln Square Master Plan feedback process will kick off with an information booth in the popular neighborhood Apple Fest, Oct. 6 - 7. …
Survey Finds 20% of American Workers in Major Cities Quitting Over Unbearable Commuteswesternjournal.com - Watchdog More than one in five workers in major American metropolitan areas have quit their jobs in recent years because of unbearable commutes, according to …
