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A revised green roofs law is heading to the Denver City Council floor after a bumpy process
Property owners will have more options without detracting from the law's intent, including a steep fee to opt out.
How Cities Are Preserving Affordable Housing
Preservation is usually cheaper than new construction and prevents displacement, but it has its challenges too.
How Placemaking Drives Resilient Cities
Through a broad focus on creating quality places, Placemaking builds the shared value, community capacity, and cross-sector collaboration that is the bedrock of resilient cities and thriving communities.
How Can Cities Help Young People Thrive?
Young adults today are optimistic. They’re ambitious. They want to work for themselves, start their own companies and give back to their communities. And according to a new research initiative, they’re flocking to cities to do it.
What the Racial Wealth Gap Means for U.S. Cities
It could take more than two centuries for disparities to dissipate.
How Cities Are Tackling Aging Water Systems
Only 11 of 97 cities studied rank high in water infrastructure financing.
Why Millennials Are About to Leave Cities in Droves
As millenials' careers finally take off, they'll start leaving urban cores—just like their parents did.
Exclusive: Why These Cities Are Leading on Clean Energy
Can You Learn to Love Any City?
In This Is Where You Belong, Melody Warnick experiments with how to make a place feel like home.
How Cities Are Taking the Lead on Green Building
Buildings use 75% of total energy in cities. WSJ Energy Expert Margaret Walls examines the progress being made and the opportunity to improve that usage.
How Cities Are Ending Unintentional Racial Discrimination
Discrimination doesn't always appear in the most obvious places. Many government policies and practices are seemingly unbiased and uncontroversial but actually disproportionately harm minorities.
Why we need to build just and inclusive cities
Just and inclusive cities put people first, and put equity and social justice at the center of policy and design.
Examples of How City Services Privatization Leads to Inequality Are Piling Up
"The private sector comes in and says we can do it better, cheaper faster, but they can’t."
How Much (Or Little) The Middle Class Makes, In 30 U.S. Cities
What do families in the middle of the income distribution actually make in cities around the United States?
How Far Your Paycheck Goes, In 356 U.S. Cities
Where do middle-class workers feel richest? Where does the cost of living take the biggest bite?
As Water Infrastructure Crumbles, Many Cities Seek Private Help
Nearly 2,000 municipalities have entered public-private partnerships for all or part of their water supply systems.
Why the Great Divide Is Growing Between Affordable and Expensive U.S. Cities
As a whole, U.S. cities are expanding as rapidly as they have throughout the last half-century. But it's where they're growing that makes a difference.
What 'Tactical Urbanism' Can (and Can't) Do for Your City
It's not going to solve poverty, for instance. But that doesn't mean it's not worth doing.
Stepping Up: How Cities Are Working to Keep America's Poorest Families Housed
Having a place to call home is a signature component of the American dream. But for far too many people, finding safe, decent, affordable housing is extremely stressful. The United States simply does not have enough affordable housing. And nationally, the situation is only getting worse. This story is not about just counting homes. The affordable housing shortage has real consequences for families because millions of…
Why the High Cost of Big-City Living Is Bad for Everyone
These imperial cities actually provide decreasing opportunities for many of those who already live in them.
Why aren’t we designing cities that work for women, not just men?
Bad town planning can impact women’s safety, movement and even income. Research led by the people most affected should inform a new approach
