Cities Remade
How the urban landscape is evolving
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Bjarke Ingels Group Soccer Stadiums Are the New Football Stadiums
In hopes of securing an MLS expansion team, cities are proposing to spend lots of public money on building arenas.
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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP The Dispiriting Saga of a Private Cul-de-Sac in the Bay Area
For progressive politics, San Francisco was once a city upon a hill. Now it’s rich people squabbling over one.
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Kyle Murfin / LA CoMotion Los Angeles Imagines Life After Cars
The city famous for its freeways—and traffic—has ambitious transit plans for the coming decades.
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Jeff Chiu / AP The Bay Area's Housing Crisis Is Even Worse After the Wildfires
In the weeks following the blazes, median monthly rent in Sonoma County jumped more than 35 percent.
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Jim Young / Reuters What Chicago Could Pay for With Its Uber Tax
The city’s per-ride fees are expected to raise $16 million next year—$16 million that can get invested in public transit.
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Thomas Peter / Reuters How One Texas City Is Trying to Downsize Mass Transit
For years Arlington was the largest metropolis with no major transportation system. Now, it’s experimenting with microtransit in lieu of more-conventional options.
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Courtesy of Jamestown The Second Life of Sears's Massive Distribution Centers
New projects in the shells of former Sears warehouses reveal much about America’s urban history—and its future.
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Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters The Moral Fabric of Cities
The writer and politician Michael Ignatieff discusses the “moral operating systems” that bind urban communities.
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Miami-Dade County Buses Have a Branding Problem
A new “trackless train” shows that commuters have a long way to go before embracing a perfectly good form of transit.
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Madison McVeigh / CityLab The End of Gothamist Is a Terrible Sign for the Future of Local News
Last week, a network of vital urban media outlets suddenly shut down. Will anything take their place?
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Transit Alliance Denver Built Up Its Public Transit, but Where Are All the Riders?
Thirteen years after a vote that poured resources into transportation, most residents haven’t changed their habits.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters The Homes Are Mobile, but Many Residents Are Stuck
A new book catalogues how people living in trailer parks miss out on the benefits of conventional homeownership.
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Bebeto Matthews / AP Innovation and Urban Inequality Go Hand in Hand
A new study finds a correlation between the number of patents a city produces and economic segregation within its limits.
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Seth Wenig / AP Can Cities Master Their Garbage With Better Design?
A band of architects and city planners insist that trash shouldn’t be a permanent feature of urban topography.
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Courtesy of King County Metro How to Get More People to Ride the Bus
A driver, a transportation official, and a transit advocate explain why Seattle recently saw one of the biggest citywide increases in passenger numbers.
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Jacob Riis How Cities Shape Epidemics
To understand the spread of diseases like Zika and Ebola, it’s helpful to look at trends in urbanization over the past few centuries.
