Public spaces tend to over-represent facilities and spatial design for the young and the middle-aged, whereas elderly citizens are all too often neglected by contemporary urban design practice....

Lupick explains the concept of harm reduction as a crucial component of a city’s response to the drug crisis. It tells the story of a grassroots group of addicts in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside who waged a political street fight for two decades to transform how the city treats its most marginalized citizens...

Barnett describes how to redesign megaregional growth using mostly private investment,..

Arstein-Kerslake discusses situations where people with cognitive impairments are unjustifiably denied the right to make their own choices...

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

Randomized control trials, called RCT’s, have a logic so simple that anyone can understand how they work and even run them themselves...

Hughes creatively combines the literature on cities with a comparative case study of three American cities to explore how New York, Los Angeles, and Toronto moved from making commitments to fulfilling them...

Wheeler uses a fictional place called HandiLand as a yardstick for measuring how far American society has progressed toward social justice and how much remains to be done...

Jones Allen investigates how housing and transport policy have played their role in creating these "Transit Deserts," and what impact race has upon those likely to be affected...

What is the role of the ambulance in the American city?

Galea examines what Americans miss when they fixate on healthcare: health...

Gaddis aims to spark a progressive movement that will transform food in American schools, and with it the lives of thousands of low-paid cafeteria workers and the millions of children they feed...

Povitz demonstrates how grassroots activism continued to thrive, even as it was transformed by unrelenting erosion of the country's already fragile social safety net...

Higashide shows us what a successful bus system looks like with real-world stories of reform—such as Houston redrawing its bus network overnight,

How does the world of book reviews work?

Skinner constructs a comprehensive understanding of the politics of defining medical necessity...

Suitts examines the parallels between de facto segregationist practices and the modern school choice movement...

Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America...

Bruce explores how various legal graffiti scenes across the United States, Mexico, and Europe provide diverse ways for artists to navigate their changing relationships with publics, institutions, and commercial entities...

Frank describes how the strongest predictor of our willingness to support climate-friendly policies, install solar panels, or buy an electric car is the number of people we know who have already done so...

Kirshner tells the story of the people of Detroit before, during, and after its bankruptcy, offering lessons about urban governance, post-industrial economics, development, and the usefulness of bankruptcy itself as a tool to aid U.S. cities...

"Beyond the Rapists" asks how and to what end scholars of communication and the public at large might look “beyond the rapist”--beyond the individuals who perpetuate violence and toward the organizations through whom violence is authorized and distributed

In this episode we consider vital role of play, and what it does to expand a child’s creativity and resilience...

It seems unthinkable that citizens of one of the most powerful nations in the world must risk their lives and livelihoods in the search for access to necessary health care...

Newman sets out to provide an explication of the debates surrounding network neutrality...