Enabling local affections involves hard work from individuals, locally embedded institutions, a built environment scaled to people, and community-focused habits and practices.

Governments are not merely centralised bodies, but should enable citizen-led innovation through an open ecosystem, called 'city as a platform'.

A new study that confirms our cultural stereotypes about city and country dwellers raises more questions than it answers.

To thrive in today’s world, they need to connect with immigrants.

For many marginalized groups, ‘public safety’ is never assumed. Recent debates on bathroom access for trans people, accounts of police brutality targeting sex workers, a seemingly endless string of police violence, and the mass shooting at Pulse during Latin night, has demonstrated what many in the LGBTQ community already know: a major oversight in planning […]

Last year the Manhattan Institute commissioned a group of academics to author urban policy papers targeting the challenges facing the American city. We published this collection last fall as The Ne…

Way back in 2012, CityLab put together a list of some streaming documentaries that offer informative, engaging, and sometimes infuriating glimpses into city life. Many of those are no longer easily...

A tale of winners and losers.

Graffiti, interesting houses, and make-shift road hockey games; Toronto's back alleys are some of the city's most underutilized spaces. The Laneway Project is trying to change this by working with citizens to transform these spaces into lively public spaces.

A new book unpacks the indelible relationship between city dwellers and trees.

A group of researchers hopes a study carried out this week in Vancouver will help influence urban planners, creating more public spaces that increase people's happiness.

Jonathan F. P. Rose’s new book proposes a way to adapt to the challenges human-built cities face: through harmony with nature.

The Kensington Market Research Project (KMRP) aims to produce an unprecedented body of rich and detailed knowledge about Toronto’s most celebrated multicultural heritage district. Bordered by China Town and adjacent to the University of Toronto’s downtown campus, Kensington Market boasts the city’s best known enclave of social diversity and counter-culture nestled in a backdrop of…

A new data visualization reveals the urban areas around the world that are struggling to keep it together.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan wants to protect creative workers from displacement.

As the writer Samuel Arbesman argues in his new book, complex systems are capable of quickly growing beyond our comprehension.

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Great Barrington’s Main Street should be a place where place people want to get out of their cars to shop, eat, and socialize—under a canopy of trees. That’s not what state departments of transportation build, however.

The biggest issue shaping the future of our cities, and our nation, is the question of how we grow. Do we continue to try to sprawl our way to the American Dream, or do we add the density that powers...

Urban design plays a vital role in community building and promoting horizontal community engagement. This video and an associated report, New London Villages: Creating community, (Scanlon, Sagor, W…

Cities are for people.

An urban scholar is crowdsourcing city boundaries in this world map to see what people include and exclude.

The subject of shopping may sound one-dimensional at first, but there's a lot to be said about urban form and how we access centers of commerce that are available to us. In this episode we think back

When someone asks you where you're from … do you sometimes not know how to answer? Writer Taiye Selasi speaks on behalf of "multi-local" people, who feel at home in the town where they grew up, the...

The next time a city or community is struggling, rather than looking only to macroeconomic forces or national policymakers for reasons, we should equally examine the strength of local leadership and...