Cities

A month after easing lockdown restrictions, the state is still seeing a steady stream of unemployment claims, economic data shows.

It might be time to lower your summer expectations.

Mid-sized cities around the country are hoping to attract businesses and residents that can no longer afford the big cities. Will a "mobility revolution" help? Buffalo wants to find out.

Barbershops and hair salons in California have been closed since mid-March to help slow the spread of the coronavirus. But that doesn't mean people haven't been getting haircuts, secretly, this whole time.

A few hundred years in the borough, from the brownstones to the shipyards. Our critic chats with a fourth-generation Brooklynite and historian.

Population density didn't make COVID-19 worse in New York City. If you want to know what went wrong, you have to think a lot smaller.

The agency has shape-shifted to overcome crises for more than two and a half centuries — and emerged as the nation's most trusted institution.

In order to minimize accidents and fatalities, cities must design to accommodate vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists in an equitable manner. Most Dutch cities do this. America and Canada? Not so much.

A Chicago suburb is on the hook for millions to operate the Sears Centre arena — an amount that in some years accounts for as much as 14 per cent of its budget.

As companies increasingly relocate to urban centers, sprawling, once-trendy corporate campuses like Sears' and Kmart's have been left crumbling in the suburbs.

This visa-free archipelago in Norway is the northernmost year-round settlement in the world, and its capital, Longyearbyen, is home to people from more than 50 countries.

The state is reconsidering its policy after a hacker released a script that automatically submits junk data to its "COVID-19 fraud" website, which allows employers to report workers who refuse to work during the pandemic.

Small college towns such as Durham, North Carolina and Madison, Wisconsin are best poised to recover.

Mississippi has taken a cue from Trump and is attempting to reopen while this week the state reached its highest numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths.

Customers packed C&C Coffee and Kitchen on Trail Boss Drive Sunday, filling the restaurant's tables, its patio and forming a line out the door for dine-in service.

The architecture, number of doors, width of the sidewalk and the height of the buildings all contribute to truly making a street an attraction.

A few glimpses of Kentucky's landscape and some of the animals and people calling it home.

Give people the public space they need right now.

The lead author of a new study on why opening now could be a mistake and why the lack of federal leadership will make it more difficult to identify long-term solutions.

An analysis of five major cities by BuzzFeed News found that ZIP codes with more cases per person tended to be lower income, have more elderly residents and be communities of color.

This stunning footage of a gritty New York City streetscape from Christmas 1976 is an eye-popping adventure through time.

Nearly half of the employees of a Utah County business tested positive for COVID-19 after the business instructed employees to not follow quarantine guidelines and required staff who had tested.

Finding a spot is the first skill. But timing is everything.

In the LA suburb of San Fernando Valley, a long stretch of Van Nuys Boulevard would be packed with kids and cars from all over Southern California — the place to show off your ride.

Grocery stores hate inventory and thats more or less why there was no canned tomato sauce last time you went to Kroger.

Outdoor recreation rules are loosening in the first US city to go into COVID-19 lockdown. The stakes couldn't be much higher.

When Gustavus, Alaska, was cut off from its grocery supply chain, one resident decided to take action.

NYC is now the epicenter, and Seattle is on its way to flattening the curve. This isn't a coincidence—one city did the right things and moved quickly, while the other stalled and suffered. So what can we learn from these major cities' diverging pandemic paths?

Cities around the world might slowly be coming back to life, but there's no going back to 'normal.'

Beaches in Walton County, FL, will open without time restrictions, but apparently, sunbathing isn't allowed.

Public transit agencies in rural areas are the lifeline for some of America's most vulnerable people. Will they be able to survive the coronavirus crisis?

Climate change is already causing zombie forests where trees can't regenerate

It's a simple way to illustrate an economic system where the city doesn't let anyone fall into poverty, while also living within a sustainable environmental footprint.

Even before Moms 4 Housing was evicted from 2928 Magnolia, racism and capitalism shaped the home's history.

In Turkey, the Ilisu Dam's flooding of the ancient town of Hasankeyf offers a lesson in how societies choose the sites they preserve or destroy.

A US font map containing 222 different typefaces named for American cities and places, with at least one font for each state.

The new coronavirus has spread rapidly in cities around the globe. How might the virus make us think differently about urban design in the future?

The data visualization team at Visual Capitalist charted a map of the most expensive cities in the world to live.

The socially distanced future of eating out is coming, but isn't here quite yet.

The big will get bigger as mom-and-pops perish and shopping goes virtual. In the short term, our cities will become more boring. In the long term, they might just become interesting again.

Unfortunately, though, New York and Louisiana aren't the norm. In fact, there isn't really any norm. While the situation in many states is improving, in nearly half of all states in the US, there are as many COVID-19 cases as ever, and in some cases, even more.

It's the perfect socially-distanced outing.

Eight nurses are the overwhelming majority of employees who remain at Haskell County Community Hospital in Oklahoma. The future of the 25-bed hospital, which has been whittled down to operating only an emergency room since 2019, is increasingly grim.

Malibu homeowners banded together to address sea level rise. A decade later, they are at war with the city, the surfers and each other.

It turns out that having 15,000 fewer accidents per month can save the state some cash.

The rent was due on April 1 and these tenants have no intention of paying it — not now, not ever.

To protest the stay-at-home-orders, drivers attempted to clog certain roads in Denver, Colorado, on Sunday.

A few glimpses of Colorado's landscape and some of the animals and people calling it home.

The sonic landscape has changed. Even in the biggest, most densely populated cities, amid the uncertainty and suffering of the pandemic, people are beginning to hear something entirely new.

Five scenarios that show the differences in states' testing algorithms.

With no local government able to take control of the situation, an accidental lake became the unexpected catalyst of a community struggle for new ecological and urban imaginations.

Charles Kenny, author of a forthcoming book on pandemics, is cautiously optimistic that cities will prevail in the era of COVID-19 — but nothing is a given.

Just like everyone else, we found reaching a human being to be next to impossible right now.

From wider sidewalks to better balconies: tips from a long-time urbanist.

Cities from Bogota to Oakland are closing streets to make room for pedestrians and bikers. Urbanists think we'd be healthier if such changes were permanent.

For city residents, equitable access to local green space is more than a coronavirus-era amenity. It's critical for physical, emotional and mental health.

In LA alone, 46,000 housing units sit completely vacant. "The Reclaimers" believe these empty dwellings could be the key to ending housing insecurity in the city.

Public green spaces are good for the immune system and the mind — and they can be rationed to allow for social distancing.

Jay Foreman gives the intriguing backstory on how the current boroughs of London got delineated.

The coronavirus crisis stands to dramatically reshape cities around the world. But the biggest revolutions in urban space may have begun before the pandemic.