Cities

Earlier this week, we took a look at an old editorial from 1955 calling for the bombing of Downtown Louisville to make way for...

In the past few years, Congressional Republicans tried and failed to turn the federal transportation program into a highways-only affair. Still, the GOP isn’t giving...

Cities are their own manmade ecosystems, and they're teeming with wildlife. One animal particularly fit for the challenges of urban life is the raccoon, and...

Today, a lot of us are left scratching our heads about why previous generations decided to build Interstate Highways where we did—like along Louisville's Ohio...

With the Kentucky Derby just a few days away, there are a lot of visitors in our fair city. We locals have ideas about...

On Friday, Louisville received was awarded the dishonorable distinction as the city with the nation's worst "parking crater," a term for a vast area of surface...

"We're not Southern—and we're not Midwestern, either. But I think that's one of the things that makes us unique." —Karter Louis What does it mean to...

Next month, 20 of the world's best horses will thunder around the track at Churchill Downs and Broken Sidewalk will celebrate its founding eight years...

For most of the 20th century, cities answered transportation problems by adding more pavement. More freeways. More lanes. More parking lots. More things that couldn't...