Urban Edge

Insights, perspectives and stories about building better cities and better lives

Houston Metro's Next Steps Could Have Big Impacts, But For Whom Depends on Final Funding and Plans

With several still very preliminary plans for Metro's next steps on the table, how should we think about equity?

Urban Review: Juvenile Curfews, CodeNEXT and a Newsletter for Maps

This week, expanding transit in Atlanta, rethinking juvenile curfews, calling for an end to Austin's ambitious CodeNEXT and more.

Q&A: New Metro Board Member Teresa Morales Shares Her Goals for Houston's Transit System

In July, Morales was appointed by Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner for the Metro board position.

Texas High Schools Are Supposed to Help Students Register to Vote. Many Aren't.

A new study from the Texas Civil Rights Project tracked which schools had requested voter registration forms from the state and which hadn't.

Metro Presents Draft Long-Range Plan

Still preliminary, the plan includes airport rail connections, bus rapid transit and more but will likely face serious financial constraints.

Urban Review: Parking, A Football Oz and How To (Not) Write About Los Angeles

This week, new data on parking, a review of a fabricated sports city, the problem with work requirements and a lesson in writing about Los Angeles (and all cities).

National Partisan Nastiness Is Now Poisoning Local Politics

Zocalo Public Square | "Sometimes we couldn’t even agree on what to call our city."

Families with Children Are Renting More

Houston had the largest increase in families with children who rented of the 30 biggest metropolitan areas between 2006 and 2016.

This Is What Resiliency Planning Looks Like

OffCite | The Resilient by Design challenge offers lessons for resiliency planning that can address environmental crises as well as challenges in socioeconomic and racial inequity.

Urban Review: Parks versus People, Prenatal Care in Texas and School to Prison Research

This week's roundup covers a new analysis of maternal risk factors across Texas, asks whether big park projects and the communities around them can get along, looks at law enforcement referrals in schools after high-profile shootings and even a Drake reference.