Urban Planning and Development

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

Barack Obama

Barack Obama Radically Expanded Our Appreciation of African-American History Barack Obama Radically Expanded Our Appreciation of African-American History

By preserving sites that have been central to the black experience, Obama helped revitalize our civic religion.

Feb 2, 2017 / Robert Greene II

New York Anti-Trump Protestors

In the Age of Trump, Cities Will Lead the Way Toward Increased Economic Opportunity In the Age of Trump, Cities Will Lead the Way Toward Increased Economic Opportunity

Five steps New York City has taken to fight inequality and encourage more equitable growth.

Jan 30, 2017 / Brad Lander and Maria Torres-Springer

New York MTA MetroCard

Public Transportation Is a Necessity. Why Does New York Price It Like a Luxury? Public Transportation Is a Necessity. Why Does New York Price It Like a Luxury?

It’s time for the city to subsidize MetroCards for low-income New Yorkers.

Jan 6, 2017 / David R. Jones and Nancy Rankin

Betsy DeVos

Trump’s Transition Team Is Stacked With Privatization Enthusiasts Trump’s Transition Team Is Stacked With Privatization Enthusiasts

If these officials get their way, America’s schools, roads, prisons, immigrant-detention centers, and critical social-insurance programs will soon fall into private hands.

Dec 28, 2016 / David Dayen

Ben Carson

With Ben Carson at HUD, America’s Cities Really Could Become Hellholes With Ben Carson at HUD, America’s Cities Really Could Become Hellholes

The neurosurgeon has blasted the agency’s work as “social engineering” and “communist.”

Dec 6, 2016 / Joan Walsh

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