Cities & Urbanism
Vox’s coverage of the places we live: urban, surburban, and everywhere in between — and how policies are transforming those spaces.
We know Trump wants to defund them, but what exactly are they?
The simple fact of where you live can have a huge impact on your health.
Doubling down on auto infrastructure, Kentucky-style.
A new report looks at crime trends for some of the US’s largest cities. There’s bad news.
They can deliver almost half the carbon reductions needed to hit our climate targets.
Simple economic models ignore the real human costs of small-town decline.
The counties Clinton won account for 64 percent of the economy.
San Francisco, Oakland, Albany, and Boulder voted against soda in landslides.
The stakes are high for beverage-makers at a time when their sales are slumping.
After six years, we haven’t found a “killer app” for super-fast broadband networks.
It’s the most powerful thing cities can do to fight climate change.
A closer look at how community gardens and urban farms are transforming American cities.
Correction: rural households did not lose income in 2015, as we originally reported.
Police violence, mass incarceration, and segregation are a big part of many large American cities — and they leave black communities hurt and angry.
Obama wants to let cities offer internet access. But a court struck down his proposal.
City transportation officials weigh in.
Beginning in the 1950s, cities demolished thousands of homes in walkable neighborhoods to make room for freeways.
From the origin of the Fertile Crescent to the boom of the past century.
Much of the growth in the recovery has really been concentrated in the most highly populated cities.
Despite astronomical housing prices, Silicon Valley workers enjoy the nation’s highest standard of living.
Sprawling cities versus densifying cities
A story of highway engineers, institutional racism, and the auto industry.
She had no formal training, but she upended wisdom from experts in the field.
Many community activists and experts have argued for years that the most effective way to prevent lead poisoning is to target individual homes for the removal of lead hazards.
Zoning is too important to be left to local government.
It’s no coincidence that this year’s Final Four is held in Houston.
Sorry, middle-class parents, this city’s not for you!
How can we stop outdated assumptions from forcing us to waste?
The CDC spent almost $2 million on six cities’ lead prevention programs, but data is hard to obtain. However, we learned that in Pennsylvania 10 percent of children tested had levels of 5 or more micrograms per deciliter of lead in the blood.
An innovative design firm is using data and community outreach to protect Nairobi’s poorest residents from devastating storms.
Half the world’s population lives in cities. That’s a massive health opportunity.
London has the most daily bike commuters, but New York City is catching up.
A drastic measure for a big problem in major cities.
From Houston to Melbourne, the surprising ways urban areas are dealing with water woes
Florida versus Texas is particularly interesting.
The House just passed a bill to crack down on cities that limit their assistance with federal immigration agents. But do they understand what they’re doing?
There’s no place like home — especially for first-time homebuyers in Overland Park, Kansas.
Sports teams are private businesses with rich owners. So why do they get so many taxpayer subsidies?
DC has more housing units than ever, but fewer people per unit.
New York has been No. 1 for a long time.