Urban Planning and Development

A commuter at a ticket kiosk at New Jersey Transit train station at Penn Station in New York.

Transportation Should Be a Bigger Issue in the 2024 Election  Transportation Should Be a Bigger Issue in the 2024 Election 

As November approaches, the safety, accessibility, and equity of active transit users has, so far, been a footnote at best.

Sep 4, 2024 / StudentNation / Grace Gurvey

Blake Street Tenants Union Protest

The Connecticut Tenants Union Trying to Buy Their Apartment Building The Connecticut Tenants Union Trying to Buy Their Apartment Building

Members of the Blake Street Tenants Union in New Haven see community ownership as critical to preserving affordable housing. Is now the time for widespread tenant control?

Sep 2, 2024 / StudentNation / Maggie Grether

City Comptroller Brad Lander attends a rally to urge the State Assembly to pass Coverage for All legislation at City Hall Park.

NYC Mayoral Candidate Brad Lander Makes His Case NYC Mayoral Candidate Brad Lander Makes His Case

The “progressive and pragmatic” city comptroller joins the race for New York City mayor.

Aug 5, 2024 / Q&A / Bhaskar Sunkara

One of the bridges over the Gowanus Canal.

The Transformation of Gowanus The Transformation of Gowanus

Can a Superfund site be remade into an experiment for equitable housing and eco-friendly development?

Jul 31, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Karrie Jacobs

Visualizing the Future

Visualizing the Future Visualizing the Future

We aren’t saving the planet. The planet is saving us.

Jul 12, 2024 / OppArt / Peter Kuper

Screenshot of CGI image in proposal titled “From Crisis to Prosperity.”

The Awful Plan to Turn Gaza Into the Next Dubai The Awful Plan to Turn Gaza Into the Next Dubai

The Netanyahu administration seems to have learned from neighboring petrostates that spectacle can distract from ethnic cleansing.

Jul 9, 2024 / Column / Kate Wagner

Purdue Pharma Headquarters

American Bankruptcy Law Already Undercuts Accountability for Police Misconduct American Bankruptcy Law Already Undercuts Accountability for Police Misconduct

And the Supreme Court may be about to make the situation worse.

Jun 19, 2024 / Melissa B. Jacoby

Paige Avila cools off her brother Eric Avila in Massachusetts in a 2012 heat wave.

With Air-Conditioning, Have We Passed the Point of No Return? With Air-Conditioning, Have We Passed the Point of No Return?

Consider it the feedback loop from hell: The greenhouse gas emissions air-conditioning releases ensure that we will continue to rely on it.

Jun 17, 2024 / Stan Cox

Lawson with microphone

The Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., 1928–2024 The Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., 1928–2024

The “greatest teacher of nonviolence in America” was a mentor to generations of activists, from Martin Luther King Jr. to today’s union organizers and immigrant rights campaigners...

Jun 13, 2024 / Obituary / Peter Dreier

Cars move slowly through traffic in midtown Manhattan on June 6, 2024.

Has NY Governor Kathy Hochul Killed Congestion Pricing For Good? Has NY Governor Kathy Hochul Killed Congestion Pricing For Good?

Or just until after the election? Either way, she’s blown a $15 billion hole in the MTA budget, leaving New Yorkers with overcrowded streets, filthy air, and an underfunded subwa...

Jun 11, 2024 / Ross Barkan

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