September 18, 2024
We take iconic civic places for granted, but do we know their backstories?
September 4, 2024
How might robotic arms paint our streets?
August 21, 2024
What is a cultural landscape?
August 7, 2024
Where’s the beef? How Chicago’s Fulton Market District became the hottest sector in the city.
July 24, 2024
How did birds and bees discover Houston’s Discovery Green?
July 10, 2024
How is Austin’s Waterloo Greenway one of the most ambitious parks underway in the country?
June 26, 2024
How important are cultural institutions to the health of a city?
June 12, 2024
Who lives in a former bank tower
May 29, 2024
Should cities be in the hotel business?
May 15, 2024
The conservation and development world lost a good one
May 1, 2024
When was redevelopment used for historic preservation?
April 17, 2024
What does it take to attract families to live downtown?
April 3, 2024
How do you get rid of an
open-air drug market?
March 20, 2024
Would you watch a concert in an igloo?
March 6, 2024
How do cities prepare for stormier storms, hotter heat waves and rising tides?
February 21, 2024
Why does Bunker Hill in Los Angeles star in so many Film Noir movies?
February 7, 2024
Is crime in cities as bad as being trumpeted?
January 24, 2024
Is the current housing crisis really something new?
January 10, 2024
When do only a few blocks make a world of difference?
December 27, 2023
Will downtowns regain their stature as unparalleled centers of commerce, culture and creatvity?
December 13, 2023
What will attract people to a downtown financial district looking to reinvent itself?
November 29, 2023
How are two former steel cities forging their futures?
November 15, 2023
Check out the new Railroad Park short video
November 1, 2023
Remembering LA developer Wayne Ratkovich
October 18, 2023
Don’t fall into the Doom Loop trap!
October 4, 2023
How did a master’s thesis lead to remaking the Minneapolis riverfront?
September 20, 2023
How did an Atlanta development revolutionize public housing?
September 6, 2023
How did Railroad Park get Birmingham back on track?
August 23, 2023
How did a college thesis spur $10B in investment?
August 9, 2023
Got a minute for the 15 minute city?
July 26, 2023
How are cities adapting to climate change?
July 12, 2023
Meet your makers!
June 28, 2023
We’re all going to Disneyland!
June 14, 2023
Why are we going to Atlanta and Toronto to compare public housing projects?
May 31, 2023
Are you on the grid or off the grid?
May 17, 2023
What is a smart city?
May 3, 2023
How did a ragtag band of artists and hippies stop the Crosstown Expressway in Philadelphia?
April 19, 2023
Spring has sprung! Dramatic improvements in parks, trails and open spaces
April 5, 2023
How do we maintain cultural continuity in changing neighborhoods?
March 22, 2023
What to do about homelessness?
March 8, 2023
How can cities stay competitive using arts and culture?
February 22, 2023
When redevelopment worked — Philadelphia’s Yorktown
February 8, 2023
Happy Lunar Year! Hopping around North American Chinatowns in the Year of the Rabbit
January 25, 2023
How food and dining are essential ingredients for healthy cities
January 11, 2023
Converting offices into housing
December 28, 2022
Downtown was the place to be – in the 1920s
December 14, 2022
Garden Cities
November 30, 2022
Why we filmed in Pittsburgh
November 16, 2022
City Beautiful
November 2, 2022
Why we filmed in Los Angeles
October 19, 2022
Why is there no school in San Francisco’s Mission Bay?
October 5, 2022
Why we filmed in Philadelphia
September 21, 2022
How do we choose which stories to tell
September 7, 2022
What’s covered in Episodes 1 & 2?
August 24, 2022
Laying the foundation for the series
August 10, 2022
Introducing Saving the City