Urban Planning and Development

Baltimore row houses

The Solution to Our Housing Crisis Is to Let Communities Own Property The Solution to Our Housing Crisis Is to Let Communities Own Property

Community Land Trusts keep the focus of development on the actual needs of a neighborhood.

Aug 29, 2017 / Michelle Chen

African Americans Have Lost Untold Acres of Land Over the Last Century

African Americans Have Lost Untold Acres of Land Over the Last Century African Americans Have Lost Untold Acres of Land Over the Last Century

An obscure legal loophole is often to blame.

Jun 26, 2017 / Feature / Leah Douglas

This Is How the Trump Administration Will Privatize Our Infrastructure

This Is How the Trump Administration Will Privatize Our Infrastructure This Is How the Trump Administration Will Privatize Our Infrastructure

Public-private partnerships have been disasters for American cities. Naturally, Trump loves them.

Jun 20, 2017 / David Dayen

Grenfell Tower in London

Another Terror Attack in London, as Grief and Anger Build in the Wake of the Grenfell Tower Fire Another Terror Attack in London, as Grief and Anger Build in the Wake of the Grenfell Tower Fire

The conflagration was a lethal consequence of years of putting profit before people’s lives.

Jun 19, 2017 / Maria Margaronis

Flint Water Pipeline

It’s Time for the Government to Give Everyone a Job It’s Time for the Government to Give Everyone a Job

A new plan from CAP is a promising first step. 

May 19, 2017 / David Dayen

Keith Ellison

Trump’s Budget Betrays His Supporters. Here’s One That Doesn’t. Trump’s Budget Betrays His Supporters. Here’s One That Doesn’t.

The People’s Budget would strengthen the middle class and promote economic security for all.

May 9, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Cooperation Jackson

Meet the Radical Workers’ Cooperative Growing in the Heart of the Deep South Meet the Radical Workers’ Cooperative Growing in the Heart of the Deep South

Cooperation Jackson is trying to build an alternative economy for the city’s majority-black residents.

Apr 24, 2017 / P.E. Moskowitz

Drought

Trump’s Climate Order May Make it Harder to Prepare for Natural Disasters Trump’s Climate Order May Make it Harder to Prepare for Natural Disasters

The president rolled back two directives meant to protect communities from the effects of climate change.

Mar 29, 2017 / Zoë Carpenter

MLK March on Washington

The Civil Rights Movement Had One Powerful Tool That We Don’t Have The Civil Rights Movement Had One Powerful Tool That We Don’t Have

Without it, activists will have to find new ways to bring about change in 2017.

Mar 27, 2017 / Jon Else

Jane Jacobs’s Radical Vision of Humanity

Jane Jacobs’s Radical Vision of Humanity Jane Jacobs’s Radical Vision of Humanity

For the great urbanist and social critic, the planning of cities was always an ad hoc affair.

Feb 3, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

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