Tag: Urban development
Traditional downtowns are dead or dying in many US cities −...
John Rennie Short, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The hollowing out of U.S. cities’ office and commercial cores is...
Why the humble city bus is the key to improving US...
Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Hunter College
Public transit in the U.S. is in a sorry state – aging, underfunded and...
City planners are questioning the point of parking garages
Kevin J. Krizek, University of Colorado Boulder and John Hersey, University of Colorado Boulder
For the past century, the...
City planners are questioning the point of parking garages
Kevin J. Krizek, University of Colorado Boulder and John Hersey, University of Colorado Boulder
For the past century, the...
How food became the perfect beachhead for gentrification
Pascale Joassart-Marcelli, San Diego State University
Everybody, it seems, welcomes the arrival of new restaurants, cafés, food trucks and...
A new solution for America’s empty churches: A change of faith
Ashima Krishna, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Over the past few decades, vacant and underutilized churches have become a familiar sight...
What lies beneath: To manage toxic contamination in cities, study their...
James R. Elliott, Rice University and Scott Frickel, Brown University
Philadelphia’s hip Northern Liberties community is an old working-class neighborhood that has become a model...
Sustainable cities need more than parks, cafes and a riverwalk
Trina Hamilton, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York and Winifred Curran, DePaul University
There are many indexes that aim to rank how...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
