Cities & Urbanism
Vox’s coverage of the places we live: urban, surburban, and everywhere in between — and how policies are transforming those spaces.
Seattle is legalizing tent cities in an attempt to fix homelessness. Is that really the best approach?
Limited transit means there’s no option for people who can’t afford to drive.
It’s all about New York, Philadelphia, and DC — with a little Baltimore, Wilmington, and Newark in between.
Since the recession, prices have rebounded more strongly in more walkable areas.
A new study says sprawl costs the US economy $1 trillion each year.
Mumbai is finally tackling its slum problem with the power of upzoning.
There’s not much conservatism in urban America.
Google Fiber is 10 to 50 times faster a typical broadband connection today, and it’s coming to the Atlanta, Nashville, Charlotte, and Raleigh-Durham metro areas.
The president is visiting Cedar Falls, IA, today to make the case for city governments to build their own super-fast broadband networks.
US cities, for instance, are many times brighter than similarly-sized German cities.
Hong Kong is bonkers.
Illinois dominates the best-metro-areas list. Louisiana metro areas fared worst.
Seattle is spending billions to replace its urban freeway with a freeway tunnel. Scrapping the freeway altogether would have been a better option.
Population growth and global warming are stressing our water supplies. Here’s how we’ll adapt.
Many urban neighborhoods are places of concentrated poverty, and it’s killing opportunity in the US.
Why we shouldn’t be so quick to shame Fort Lauderdale about its homelessness policy
The research is clear: lower speed limits save lives.
How lopsided the the proportions of an urban street corner really are.
Marijuana legalization 2014: Cities are voting on pot, too
Orange County, CA is the only expensive conservative market and it’s not even that conservative.
Mayors could solve 15% of the climate problem on their own, by changing building and transportation policies.
It has more bikes than the rest of the world, combined.
There’s a link between public transit and whether people can climb the economic ladder. But how tight is it?
The House of Representatives has approved legislation that would make it harder for cities to build their own broadband networks.
The US has more biker and walker deaths than many European nations. And the worst offending cities aren’t as obvious as you might think.