Before being zoned out of existence, boarding houses gave less privileged city dwellers a place to live. Some places are bringing them back.

They own prime land in expensive residential areas and have a mandate to help the vulnerable.

“Transit to trails” is opening up breathtaking natural spaces to an outdoorsy crowd that is more urban-based than ever.

Arnsberg, Germany’s Department of Future Aging has made it a prototype for how cities around the world can help their older residents thrive.

In a city-state that imports 90% of its food, rooftop gardens are a matter of national food security.

Sprouting in our concrete jungles, high-rises built of wood are pointing the way to a greener form of construction.

Agape Village is a place where people find community, structure, stability — and a path to permanent housing.

In Philadelphia, face-to-face mediated chats help both parties get what they need.

By squeezing in more housing, the city is giving new life to spaces that were once for throwing trash and parking cars.

The Bay Area is walking back a proposal that would have forced residents to work remotely.

When the city closed streets to traffic during Covid, it revealed a fix for designs that cater to white and moneyed interests.

How Canadian cities and First Nations territories discovered the catalytic power of collaboration.

By sharing everything from services to accessibility renovations, co-housing strikes a balance between autonomy and affordability.

Why should homeowners get all the perks? How a different type of rental model puts equity back in the pockets of tenants.

Millions of Europeans now commute by e-bike, a mobility revolution carefully cultivated by governments and employers.

In the city’s Mission District, renters are collectively buying their buildings before they get priced out.

For the first time, a major Canadian city won’t require space for cars on any property.

Intergenerational homesharing has taken off. The pandemic has complicated the calculus, but some say it’s more vital than ever.

When correctly designed, housing that gives people personal space can make them feel closer.

Hundreds of cities have handed over their streets to pedestrians and cyclists during the pandemic. Some of them plan to keep it that way.

Benches that become stoves and manholes hiding emergency toilets reflect the survival instincts of a country that has learned to live with peril.

A profit-making enterprise with a mandate to serve the people, the city’s transit system is uniquely designed to weather a crisis.

In Singapore, housing is affordable, diverse and impeccably maintained.

As cities around the world confront an affordability crisis, a few have spent a century perfecting the art of subsidized housing for the masses.

Is rainwater capture the new solar panel? How drought-stricken cities are capitalizing on a building solution so simple, it’s almost like it’s right above our heads.

No, seriously. Like, actually make it free. A rust belt guide to increasing ridership.

Pontevedra, once choked with cars, is a laboratory for how smaller cities can implement a few simple tricks to reduce driving dramatically.

They’re dangerous, destructive, polluting, expensive, inefficient and inequitable—not to mention a pain in the ass. Now cars are being chased off city streets. That’s progress.

A deep-red town in Indiana has a bicycling network that would make Boulder blush. Their secret? Forget the politics and treat bikes more like cars.

Opponents say fees for urban services hit poor people hardest. But the data show that, implemented right, dynamic pricing can be a tool for equity.

Until recently, Mexico City was building more parking than housing. Now new reforms are pushing the parking aside and returning the pavement to the people.

Urban neighborhoods that were severed decades ago by massive highways are finally being sewn back together by public spaces designed to reconnect and heal.