The holiday season is here, and so is our annual guide to the best gifts for urbanists, city planners and community advocates. Whether you’re shopping for someone pushing for safer streets, expanding ...

An inaugural meetup for “Asian Urbanists” in San Francisco on Oct. 28, 2025. Photo by Yujie Zhou. While many in San Francisco’s Asian community opposed closing the Great Highway in favor of a park and ...

Cities don’t just sprawl—they metabolize. A new study shows that population, infrastructure, and emissions grow in lock-step, overturning the popular idea that bigger automatically means greener. The ...

There’s just something about suburbs. Most Americans like them. A resolute minority finds this fact inexplicable and frustrating. Witness the ferocious reaction to Conor Dougherty’s New York Times ...

(CN) — It’s been called “the law that swallowed California” and the “third rail of politics” in the Golden State. At least four previous governors stretching back to the early 1980s have tried and ...

The Scott Street-Ravara mixed-use housing project, now under construction in Missoula, Mont., is the city’s largest development of income-restricted for-sale units. (NBC Montana) In many ways, Montana ...

Even in retirement, Mark Gottdiener, professor emeritus of sociology, College of Arts and Sciences, is recognized as one of the nation’s leading urban sociologists. His work at the intersection of ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Even in retirement, Mark Gottdiener, PhD, professor emeritus of sociology in the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences, is recognized as one of the nation’s leading urban ...

California is the prime battleground between transportation innovation and legacy mass transit. While Silicon Valley is rolling out driverless taxis and testing flying cars, urbanists and transit ...

Urbanists often justify their anti-suburban policies based on a fairness issue. They argue that cities subsidize the suburbs and this shift of resources robs cities of their tax revenues and that ...