Urban Current

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.

The president’s transportation budget proposal provides a vision toward the future, but what really is needed is a roadmap.

In a city steeped in grassroots engagement and citizen participation, the Dialogues for Change initiative held its second workshop from April 21-24, 2013, in Leipzig, Germany.

The Urban Center explores and guides the urban form of the city of Torino, Italy. What, if anything, could it teach other European and American cities?

On March 28, 2013, the Urban and Regional Policy Program of the German Marshall Fund of the United States hosted the event, “Policies and Strategies in Shrinking Cities: The Case of Youngstown, Ohio.”

A new urban and regional paper identifies the public transit priority features — public policy and technological improvements that favor public transit over private auto traffic — that are successful in Munich, Germany, and Zurich, Switzerland, and that have relevancy to improving transit performance in Seattle, Washington.

The Greening of Detroit, which relies on volunteer manpower for its planting efforts, has planted more than 82,000 trees in Detroit, Hamtramck, and Highland Park since its inception in 1989.

Some say that the definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect a different result. That was my first thought when I read the Obama administration was pushing to make home loans available to people with weaker credit.

The Aerotropolis, a project of the HUD Community Challenge Grant, contributes to the ongoing plans of the city and region to reinvent Memphis by highlighting its best assets.