Urban Planning

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Rebecca Onion

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How Is the Internet Like a Giant City That Might Collapse One Day?

Slate Money Feb 27, 2021 6:00 AM

The Last City of the 20th Century

James Dann

Feb 21, 2021 5:00 PM

Is the Federal Government Going to Abandon Cities Again?

Henry Grabar

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Will COVID Push People Out of Cities for Good?

Henry Grabar

July 11, 2020 5:45 AM

I Walked All 1,114 Blocks of My ZIP Code Just to Catalog How People Style Their House Numbers

Dan Kois

June 25, 2020 11:21 AM

Cities Have a Small Window to Save Themselves From Cars

David Zipper

May 14, 2020 6:00 AM

Macron Has a Plan for Rural France: 1,000 Cafes

Henry Grabar

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Can a U.S.-Funded Park Help Make El Salvador Safer?

Catesby Holmes

Aug 05, 2019 10:00 AM

When Beverly Hills Is Worried About “Gentrification,” It’s Time to Finally Define the Term

Henry Grabar

May 03, 2019 5:50 AM

Chicago Dug the World’s Biggest Flood-Stopping Tunnel. What if the City Got It Wrong?

Henry Grabar

Jan 02, 2019 5:50 AM

What if the Only Way to Save Houston From Flooding Is to Destroy Part of It?

Henry Grabar

Aug 30, 2018 1:03 PM

Shanghai and Beijing Have Stopped Growing—but Not on Their Own

Henry Grabar

July 30, 2018 5:50 AM

American Cities Are Squandering Some of Their Most Valuable Real Estate: the Curb

Henry Grabar

July 19, 2018 11:24 AM

Beautiful Visualizations Reduce 25 American Cities to Their Design Essence

Henry Grabar

July 11, 2018 6:47 PM

A California Politician Proposed a Common-Sense Fix to the Housing Crisis. Here’s Why (Almost) Everyone Hated It.

Henry Grabar

April 20, 2018 5:22 PM

Are Our Roads Ready for Self-Driving Cars?

Christina Bonnington

March 21, 2018 2:33 PM

New York’s Coming Subway Crisis Is a Chance to Try Something Radical. Instead the City Has No Plan.

Henry Grabar

April 03, 2017 7:09 PM

Ben Carson Is the Latest in a Long History of Federal Insults to HUD’s Important Work

Valerie Stahl

Jan 11, 2017 3:15 PM

Cities Are Cutting Public Transportation Because They Think Uber Will Fill the Gap. They’ll Regret It.

Henry Grabar

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