California has funded immigrant legal defense against deportation for a decade. Now, more cities and counties are kicking in ...

Op-ed: Sports events, conventions and festivals produce massive food surpluses. Local policies can redirect that food to ...

As budgets tighten, nonprofits and cities alike are launching centralized help desks to help residents navigate scarce ...

A joyful, ebullient performance on ice provides a reason to look back at a landmark community investment program that no ...

Madison is proving that electric buses can run through frightfully cold winters, providing a blueprint for zero-emissions ...

After two decades of neighborhood walks with residents, Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani’s new book, “The Cities We Need,” shows the ...

Lexington used a $1 million public contract to wipe out millions in hospital bills. In rural Paducah, organizers are ...

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Bringing Next City to Chicago couldn’t happen at a more perfect time as we chart new ways to define the modern city,” says ...

The housing development, known as El Barrio’s Artspace PS 109, is the last of its kind. That’s because its creation was the ...

The proliferation of bubble tea shops displacing Chinatown’s legacy businesses might not “look” like gentrification. That makes it even more insidious, some say.