I <3 Minneapolis Tony Maras Minneapolis is love thy neighbor in the truest sense. I feel like there’s something special about Minneapolis, […]

Letter from the Editor: GroundswellWe live in a time of enormous disruption—technological, economic, political, and environmental. Our cities are the focal points of t […]

Portrait of Janno Lieber Unveiling the Final Congestion Pricing Tablet Ben Cornwell This 18″ x 36″ oil on canvas portrait of MTA CEO Janno Lieber depicts the moment of midnight, January 5th, […]

Social Watersheds Kiron Roy When NYC’s planners and environmental activists talk about nature in the city, it’s hard to see what they mean. The […]

Planners at the Poker Table: Casino licensing in New York  Owen Bomba Night-time rendering of The Coney, courtesy of FX Collaborative. As 40,000 spectators filed into CitiField for the […]

Operationalizing Vision Zero: Advancing Traffic Safety in New Haven Dimitris Koutoumbas Margaret Gainey, a New Haven crossing guard, assists pedestrians and school bus operations during dismissal […]

Frozen Assets: The Rising Supply of Nomobiles Gabriella Walker Nomobile (nō-mō-bēl): noun, a street-parked car that has become incapacitated by snow and/or ice and has be […]

The New Landlords: How Property Technology Is Extracting Value From New York's Renters Sara Rabb Property management and security technologies. Introduction The mechanisms through which renters’ rights are […]

Navigating Spatial Challenges in Kiryas Joel: Suburban America’s 15-Minute Hasidic Satmar Village By Jeff Becker Entrance to the village of Kiryas Joel, NY (Source: friedavizel) Black hats, Torah, Yiddish and…mixed use z […]

Playing with Water: Parks’ Role in Flood Resilience Sonja Greenan-Neve Brooklyn’s first “Bluebelt” is coming to Prospect Park, adding “flood resilience” to the list of ways the […]

The Next Best Thing: Hope and Climate Activism in the City Anna Moggia-Palzer Many people can name a moment when the climate crisis became a permanent, uneasy element of their […]

Segregation, suburbanization, and polarization: how historical segregation in planning helps fuel modern cultural division Raga Maddela The 2026 Super Bowl half-time show, headlined by Puerto Rican-American artist Bad Bunny, was an extremely […]

Public Space is Public Power: How We Took Control of Public Space During The George Floyd Uprising Mir Jivotovski Protestors crossing the Brooklyn Bridge June 9, 2020 After months of living under lockdown, the government […]

Letter from the EditorsWe build cities out of love for other people. Planners and policymakers dedicate their work to improving a collective space we can […]

Vita Civile: Urban Governance in Medieval Siena By Tony Maras Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Allegory of Good and Bad Government (Wikipedia Commons) Situated in the Tuscan hills s […]

Collective by Choice or by Force in the Town of Red Hook, New York By Becca Ellsworth The eminent domain action against the Red Hook Boat Club has cost taxpayers nearly $110,000 through July. […]

Historic Districts: Between Preservation and Growth By Maria Paula Armelin “It leads to the discovery that, despite being what we are, we can also wish to be something else. For […]

Talking Housing with Laura Wolf-Powers By Will Greenberg Farragut Houses, Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn (Alec Figueroa) New York City’s new Mayor, Zohran M […]

Templating Community: How Agencies Support Civic Engagement By Zhi Keng He Pathkeepers, park stewards who help manage nature trails, working and socializing on an autumn day. (Zhi Keng […]

Everyone Gets a Slice: Reflections on New York City’s First Unionized Pizzeria By Finnegan Warfield The front of the Barboncino (Finnegan Warfield) A few blocks up from Eastern Parkway on a bustling […]