Cities

Miami is already sinking under rising sea levels

You don’t have to look 85 years into the future to see what a warming world looks like -- you only need to look as far as Miami.

Neel V. Patel Cities

A surprising tool to slow gentrification: Land trusts

Community land trusts can guarantee a level of economic diversity in urban neighborhoods, and help locals take charge of their own destiny.

Ben Adler Cities

U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama welcome members of the Jackie Robinson West All Stars Little League baseball team, including DJ Butler (bottom L), Lawrence Noble (#7), Eddie King (#18) and Jaheim Benton (far R), from Chicago in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington November 6, 2014. The team won the U.S. bracket of the Little League World Series this summer, before falling in the finals to the Seoul Little League of Seoul, South Korea.

How Chicago’s Little League scandal cheats city kids

The young players from Jackie Robinson West were stripped of their Little League title. City kids everywhere may have lost a lot more.

Andrew Simon Cities

Will San Francisco’s water snobs drink from the gutter?

California's persistent drought has led San Francisco to take a second look at its long-neglected underground streams and springs.

Heather Smith Cities

Can we green the hood without gentrifying it?

How gentrification dirties up environmental cleanups.

Brentin Mock Cities

Who says gentrification is a myth?

Recent reports claim that gentrification is fiction. But it’s a fact of life for those who’ve been displaced by it.

Brentin Mock Cities

Enjoy it while it lasts — winter is moving north

A zippy new infographic shows how our winters are warming. Type in your city and find out whose secondhand seasons you'll have by 2100.

Greg Hanscom Cities

5 surprising electric car Meccas

Electric cars are about to blow up in these cities -- and none are on the coasts.

Liz Core Cities

The Koch brothers just kicked mass transit in the face

The billionaires just squelched efforts to raise the gas tax, which pays to fix roads and bridges, saying money was being wasted on bike paths and transit.