Urban Design
Retrofitting Parking Garages Could Help With Affordable Housing Shortage
COMMENTARY | As Covid-19 shattered normal commuting patterns and center city parking use, some are investigating how high-rise garages and parking lots can be converted to provide space for housing.
More Pedestrians Are Getting Killed By Cars
The number of pedestrians struck and killed is up 45% over the last decade. People of color and residents of low-income and rural communities are more at risk, according to new research.
The 1970s Black Utopian City That Became a Modern Ghost Town
What the demise of an experimental Black town reveals about the struggle for racial equality today.
How Downtowns Can Rebound After the Pandemic
They have to offer more than office space.
Searing Heat Will Make COVID-19 Racial Disparities Worse
Urban heat islands can be 22 degrees hotter than their surroundings.
Advocates Rally to Tear Down Highways That Bulldozed Black Neighborhoods
The interstate highway system flattened homes and businesses in Black communities.
D.C.’s Hard Road to Safer Streets
As the District lagged on its Vision Zero goals, bike and pedestrian advocates in Washington turned traffic fatalities into a rallying cry, and got results.
Growing Up in a Walkable Neighborhood Can Increase Adult Income
A new study finds that even considering other factors, the walkability of a child’s neighborhood has a direct correlation to increased adult earnings.
America's Hottest Cities for Urban Planners
You might think planners—and urbanists in general—congregate in big coastal metros. But planning jobs are growing fastest elsewhere.
The Rise and Fall of Thinking Big About Cities
A new exhibition looks back at the period of grand urban design and social reform in New York City, Boston, and Chicago.
A Quest to Reconstruct Baltimore’s American Indian ‘Reservation’
COMMENTARY | The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina is the largest tribe east of the Mississippi River, and they are fighting to preserve their culture in Baltimore.
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