Social innovations that improve the health and resiliency of cities (more)
Expanding public transit systems to connect low-income communities to healthy environments, high-quality education, and well-paying jobs isn’t enough. Transit has to be affordable as well as accessible.
Fair housing initiatives that focus on dispersion ignore the social structures and processes that result in the inequitable distribution of resources necessary for health.
A coalition of organizations is improving the health of low-income communities.
Six years ago, the City Colleges of Chicago launched its own turnaround effort—a bid for “reinvention”—and now it’s earning high marks for improved performance.
The success of the Housing First movement shows why social service providers must listen to the people they serve.
One of the cities hit hardest by the wave of home foreclosures was Stockton, Calif., a city that later declared bankruptcy.
A specially designed food cart that combines high social impact with reduced environmental impact.
City officials under Mayor Michael Bloomberg made advances in public health that were important but hardly unique.
The sharing economy, as a feature of urban life, could evolve in promising or not-so-promising ways.
Collaborative approaches to economic development are seeing results.
