Urban Edge
How Salt Lake City is Reusing Its Extra-Wide Streets
An ambitious initiative is inspiring a new approach to development across the city.
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Does Urban Planning Have a Race Problem?
As Ferguson’s one-year anniversary approaches, one urban planner says her profession needs to consider how it thinks about race.
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Take a Glimpse At The Eerie Interior of Houston's Astrodome
The Kinder Institute takes a peek inside Houston's Astrodome, which hasn't been used on a regular basis since 1999.
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Here Are The Nine Steps for Making a Better City
Shelley Poticha, director of NRDC's urban solutions program, offers her rules for what it takes to make cities green, pleasant and walkable.
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Memo to Cities: Most Cyclists Aren’t Urban Hipsters
There’s a prevailing stereotype of cyclists as upwardly mobile urbanites who use bikes by choice. But what about the working poor who bike because it’s all they can afford?
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