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(Editor's Note: Yesterday we looked at how Louisville stacks up nationally in terms of bike ridership and infrastructure. Part of that involved suggestions from...

It's hard to reduce someone as prolific as Jane Jacobs to a single book. She accomplished so much more than that over her career...

Four years ago, Louisville, Kentucky, awoke to an alarming urban trend. This forward-thinking southern city—recently ranked as America’s most livable by the U.S. Conference...

(Editor's Note: Another year, and Louisville still isn't competing with cities serious about bike infrastructure. While the city did build a few miles of...

Let's make our streets safe enough where this can happen, Louisville. The usual New York City public space instigators at Improv Everywhere have staged a...

It started out as a normal ride at the Bryant Park carousel in Midtown Manhattan. Eager children boarded ornate rabbits, frogs, and, of course,...

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...

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...

Anyone who cares about cities should know William Holly Whyte, one of America's preeminent urbanists ranking with Jane Jacobs and Louisville's own Grady Clay....