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"Today, we spend more than five times as many federal dollars on roads as we spend on public transit. We spend more building new road...

The short version is that we want to live in a city that's a livable place to work, where we can raise our family, and where we can run...

The creative sector is one of New York City’s most important economic assets. But the city’s working artists, nonprofit arts groups and...

What does history tell us? Politically, I’d like to say that inequality is bad for urbanism. That’s far from obvious, however. Jane...

“Uber, the world’s largest taxi company, owns no vehicles. Facebook, the world’s most popular media owner, creates no content. Alibaba,...

Today in Baltimore, half of the population of the city lives under the poverty line. Yet, both Bronx and Baltimore have won numerous...

The New School received special accreditation to participate in the plenary meeting of the Second Preparatory Meeting to Habitat III...

We study how growth of cities determines the growth of nations. Using a spatial equilibrium model and data on 220 US metropolitan areas...

We are a network of partners who are reshaping the global urban agenda by reframing the way urbanists think about the city. Global Urban...