Voice: Diana Lind

An urbanist believes the recent successes of FIFA Fan Fests, the NBA Finals, even Toy Story 5 prove synchronous watching is the new placemaking

Amid Washington, D.C.’s return to classical (and gilt-adorned) architecture, can Chicago’s Obama Presidential Center reinvigorate America’s waning affinity for modern design?

In the future, we’ll be working at night, skiing atop waste plants, buying single room homes, and measuring everything with AI, according to this year’s Bloomberg CityLab in Madrid

Spain’s capital may be centuries older than Philadelphia. But the vibrant city offers forward-thinking growth mindset ideas our comparatively smaller (and younger) hometown should steal

San Francisco’s new incentive program to bring retail back to downtown is an idea Philadelphia should steal

A new report makes the case that the right tax incentive structure — even in regulation-heavy CA — changes everything when it comes to building affordable housing.

The upper middle class isn't leaving cities. They’re just eschewing the civic reasons they chose to live there in the first place

What the latest Census reveals about the geography of urban and suburban population growth and shrinkage

In all the talk over closing and fixing Philly schools, there is no mention of building new ones that might serve the community better into the future. Can we look to New York City and Boston for solutions we should steal?

Six years after Covid, nationwide, urban recovery is real, but it’s uneven — and newly at risk. What cities are doing it right?