At a time when cities are looking to remake their downtowns, many are redefining their city centers as distinct neighborhoods instead of just employment and entertainment centers. While cities have been losing families for years, a trend accelerated by the...
At a time when cities are routinely affected by wildfire smoke not of their making, let's take a look at how America's onetime steel capital took deliberate actions to clear the severe air pollution largely caused by its leading industry. Pittsburgh passed a smoke...
How did Charlotte come to concentrate so many cultural institutions downtown? It's one of the more surprising stories of culture-led urban revitalization in North America. As a sleepy southern city that rose quickly in the 1980s and 1990s, largely due to corporate...
