At the Illinois gathering of the Future City competition, 16 middle school teams presented their concepts for cutting-edge cities.

An urgent call came into dispatch from a citizen in Chula Vista, Calif.: A man was waving around a gun outside a bustling taco restaurant in the middle of the day. It could have resulted in a tense ...

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A mix of residents, preservationists, civic leaders and consultants shared opinions on the future of Dallas City Hall on ...

Cities are never truly complete and done; instead they are always changing, always evolving. One positive change is the rise of regenerative cities—urban centers designed to have a restorative ...

In thousands of U.S. towns and cities, worsening climate threats — largely due to fossil fuels — trap cities in a paradox. Big cities like Houston and Tampa, Fla., and smaller ones like Port Arthur, ...

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Generation-defining challenges — including housing affordability, how to adapt to climate change and the bottoming out of commercial real estate in the wake of the pandemic — paint an uncertain future ...

Two centuries ago, New York City was a tangled collection of streets on the narrowing southern end of Manhattan island. Expansion pointed only one way, and in 1807 a three-person team proposed it be ...

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