Next City – Inspiring Better Cities
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The latest stories from Next City's Forefront series. Next City is a nonprofit organization with a mission to inspire social, economic and environmental change in cities through journalism and events around the world.
Next City – Inspiring Better Cities
1w ago
Freeways are a policy choice. Meet the Texans working to ensure we make different choices in Megan Kimble’s new book “City Limits ..read more
Next City – Inspiring Better Cities
1w ago
One-third of Americans don’t have a driver’s license. Anna Zivarts says it’s time for transportation planners to include them in decision-making ..read more
Next City – Inspiring Better Cities
2w ago
Busan’s mayor is taking a collaborative approach to championing “happy proximity,” turning his city into a living laboratory for urban regeneration ..read more
Next City – Inspiring Better Cities
2M ago
Op-ed: Right-to-repair legislation is crucial to systemic change. But every item salvaged through America’s growing patchwork of local repair movements is its own victory ..read more
Next City – Inspiring Better Cities
2M ago
Black and Hispanic communities in America's port cities are fighting an uphill battle against environmental racism and industrial expansion. Next up in Africatown, the Alabama neighborhood founded by formerly enslaved people: a new rail line ..read more
Next City – Inspiring Better Cities
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Receiving unemployment assistance and pandemic relief funds gave some gig workers space to breathe – and rethink their careers entirely ..read more
Next City – Inspiring Better Cities
3M ago
Poverty doesn’t cause social breakdown, nor is social breakdown confined to areas with high levels of poverty, Seth Kaplan writes in “Fragile Neighborhoods ..read more
Next City – Inspiring Better Cities
3M ago
Around the country, churches are closing, downsizing and selling their real estate. Urban planners need to be prepared ..read more
Next City – Inspiring Better Cities
3M ago
Lack of access to proper retail space was crippling these immigrant businesswomen in the Twin Cities. In forming a commercial real estate cooperative, they’re going far by going together ..read more
Next City – Inspiring Better Cities
3M ago
Op-ed: For Black urbanism to thrive, it needs proximity to Afrocentric social, physical and economic infrastructure ..read more