CityLab

An excerpt from Jeff Speck’s Walkable City Rules, a step-by-step guide to fixing America’s cities and towns

Hell is other people, with leaf blowers

Streetcar, bus, and metro systems have been ignoring one lesson for 100 years: Service drives demand.

Sidewalks are a last shred of safe public space. No wonder we’re fighting over them.

A surge in tourism has led to a backlash in cities where residents feel overrun. How can these cities use tourism to their benefit?

It’s time to end the tyranny of open-concept interior design

If it isn’t already there, augmented reality is coming to a device near you. Cities need to work to ensure that AR makes the leap from…

The nation’s famed mastery of rail travel has been aided by some subtle behavioral tricks

“We’re starting to realize they’re just as powerful as a park or plaza”