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Why does Erie, PA, keep giving up more and more of its lakefront to highway asphalt?

When the status quo is producing traffic fatality after traffic fatality, it's time to experiment.

To understand why the suburban experiment struggles today, we have to look at how it first took hold.

“My heart feels like it died that day. My whole life has been affected and I can’t seem to grasp it back. I feel as if I can’t breathe at times.”

As Asheville, NC, promises to make up for past harms done to its Black community, it glosses over an ongoing disparity: less-wealthy homeowners (who are disproportionately Black) are overpaying on their property taxes.

People will walk in seemingly unwalkable places—not because they want to, but because they have to. Thankfully, this bridge in Peoria, IL, is becoming a little more walkable for each of these people who use it every day.

For 45 years, this Denver organization has been seeding community, one garden at a time.

More and more transportation agencies are incorporating the use of police crash reports to determine empirically if a road is safe. Here’s why that doesn’t work.

Why is this official course from the International Association of Assessing Officers still teaching outdated redlining practices to categorize neighborhoods?

All too often, the job of development is handed to large developers with large swaths of cash to implement an all-at-once, large-scale development. This small-scale developer is showing how there is another (and better) way.

Stadium promises are seductive, but can they unlock real value in the heart of a struggling urban district?

Through a series of walk audits, local leaders in Peoria, IL, are not only observing the urban environment, but starting to understand how small, simple actions can profoundly shape it.

This Maryland makeover is a cautionary tale of where “Complete Streets” fall short.

The story of a soda fountain in Chugwater, Wyoming.

This is what happens when a city cares more about decades-old requirements than the small businesses trying to bring life to a neighborhood.

The federal government promised to undo past harms. Advocates are disillusioned.

"The art of a successful redevelopment project is understanding the regulations and the process for approval of the project."

Political and engineering leaders in Madison, WI, are working to make their city streets safer by developing a culture of safety with the efforts of their Vision Zero initiative.

In Buncombe, NC, flawed computer formulas are being used to generate thousands of dollars in "tax breaks" for owners of larger, more expensive homes.

“We can’t just convert stroads into streets or roads... we need to change the land-use around these stroads."

Detroit is studying a solution that might curb the raging decline of the city: a split-rate tax.

“Once surrounded by homes, the residents of Kelly Village now lived at the confluence of—almost underneath—two major highways."

This nonprofit is transforming pockets of St. Louis, MO, into delightful and welcoming parks—and at a low cost!