Urban Current

Since 1977 the festival has encouraged downtown redevelopment and championed civic pride. Memphis in May is a celebration of music, culture, arts, and food through a series of major events.

You probably don’t know who Dr. Jeffrey Brenner is, but in certain health policy wonk and med student circles he’s kind of a celebrity. Brenner has been working in Camden, New Jersey for 11 years with some of the poorest and most marginalized residents, who not surprisingly also have some of the worst health care outcomes.

In Cleveland, it seems like we came home to find our house had been robbed. The thieves didn’t necessarily take the most valuable assets, but they definitely trashed the place, so anything remaining with value is tainted or broken in some way.

A rapidly expanding and highly lauded success born out of the Youngstown Business Incubator, Turning Technologies is a global leader in software and hardware for audience response and classroom engagement systems.

The German Marshall Fund of the United States is pleased to announce that Dekonti Mends-Cole, Strong Cities, Strong Communities (SC2) Fellow, serving in Detroit, MI, has been selected to participate in Next City’s 2013 Vanguard Class from June 10-12, in Cleveland, OH.

This policy paper discusses several key factors for the successful implementation of transit-oriented development.

Denver Igarta, an urban planner for the City of Portland Bureau of Transportation, and Tony Mazzella, strategic advisor for the Seattle Department of Transportation, will present and discuss their month-long research in Europe.

We need our public housing authority, city and county housing departments, and others to start stepping differently.

Kevin and I hit it off at our first meeting at Youngstown City Hall. We connected on the simplicity and versatility of basketball as a vehicle for helping kids.

Detroit has the opportunity to remake its transportation network for the 21st century, without big-ticket infrastructure investment.