Cities

Civic identity and our sense of place: The case of Wild...

  "The urban fabric contains symbols (icons) that tell us something about ourselves and something about those to whom the symbols belong. This aspect of...

We’d really like to see this 1,000-foot-long slip-n-slide hit the streets...

Perhaps they're leading us on or perhaps there's really an enormous 1,000 foot long slip-n-slide planned to take over a street in Louisville later...

Watch a New York City street get converted into a pedestrian...

Filmmaker Stephen Mallon captured the making of a pedestrian plaza in New York City in vivid time-lapse for the city's Department of Transportation. Construction...

How New York City clears snow from the Brooklyn Bridge for...

Last month, we struck a nerve with our criticism for the Waterfront Development Corporation's decision not to clear the Big Four Bridge during winter weather...

Louisville can still learn lessons from Jane Jacobs’ 1958 essay, “Downtown...

In 1958, famed urbanist Jane Jacobs penned an important piece for Fortune magazine called "Downtown is for People." Published three years before her pivotal book...

Kentucky shows just how meaningless time zones are to sleeping habits

Where I live in Brooklyn, the sun will set today at the depressingly early time of 4:45p.m. In Louisville, the sun sets tonight at...

Report: Five techniques that guide the best regional planning agencies

“Metropolitan Planning Organization” is the wonky name for an obscure but oh-so-important breed of public agency—the regional planning bodies charged with distributing federal transportation...
Tweets sent from Louisville. (Courtesy Eric Fischer)

What we can learn from where people in Louisville are using...

That softly glowing green blob up there is Louisville viewed in tweets. Data artist Eric Fischer, whose work we featured as part of our...

Bike Louisville implementing Neighborways, a city-wide bike boulevard system

“Could you be mine? Would you be mine? Won’t you be my neighbor?” -Mr. Rogers Consider a map of Louisville with the major streets and...