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1 House, 40 Roommates? During Covid, Co-Living Adds Up

Co-living spaces aren’t always the cheapest option available. “You can always find a three-bedroom walkup with no elevator, no air-conditioning, and no dishwasher for...

Some Cities Are Plotting a ‘Green Recovery’ After Covid-19

This story originally appeared on The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.The cars that typically throng the huge highways weaving...

Portland’s Face-Recognition Ban Is a New Twist on ‘Smart Cities’

That led the group to get the cameras in Portland’s streetlight sensors, which originated elsewhere in city bureaucracy, disabled before deployment, averting the problems...

Reports Of The Death Of Cities Are Being Greatly Exaggerated

Pixbay One of the familiar refrains of the pandemic is that it is the epitaph of the city....

How Race-Based Redlining Shaped Disparities In Heat Vulnerability Within U.S. Cities

Over the summer, I wrote a book called “The Race Awakening of 2020: A 6 Step Guide For Moving Forward.” The book was written...

Amazon and FedEx Push to Put Delivery Robots on Your Sidewalk

In February, a lobbyist friend urged Erik Sartorius, the executive director of the Kansas League of Municipalities, to look at a newly introduced bill...

What Happens If Uber and Lyft Flee California? Look at Austin

Rafael Rodriguez remembers the moment he learned Uber and Lyft were leaving Austin. “It was Mother’s Day, and I was with my girl...

While Big Tech Prospers, an Eviction Crisis Looms Next Door

Six months into a pandemic economy, rifts in American inequality are deeper than ever. The picture is especially dystopian in Silicon Valley, where...

A Move for Driverless Mass Transit Hits Speed Bumps

Sharad Agarwal has a prediction about driverless vehicles: “Autonomous public transportation is going to happen,” he says, “and it’s going to happen sooner...

Will New York City Survive The Covid Pandemic And Recession?

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 12: A view of The Shops at Hudson Yards amid the coronavirus...

Covid Effect On Rental Markets: Pricey Cities Become Cheaper, Cheaper Cities Become Costly

In San Francisco, one and two-bedroom rents are down more than 11% since this time last year. ...

Covid Is Pushing Some Mass Transit Systems to the Brink

On March 1, the Bay Area’s Caltrain rail system was in the midst of a $2 billion plan to electrify its tracks, replace...

What Disbanding the Police Really Meant in Camden, New Jersey

Two schools of thought have emerged for altering US policing practices following the killing of George Floyd and widespread Black Lives Matter protests:...

Curfews Can Quell Violence—but Also Spark More Protests

Tuesday evening seemed quieter across the US, more than a week after a black Minneapolis man named George Floyd died at the hands of...

‘Astoundingly Wasteful’ Pop-Up Corona Cycleways Slammed By U.K. Trucking Bodies

Truck driver going nowhere fast. (Photo by Gareth Fuller/PA Images via Getty Images) PA Images via Getty...

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