Civic Engagement
Housing Density for Whom?
Max Holleran’s Yes to the City examines millennials’ demands for more housing and a new road map for urban growth.
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Cities - Book Reviews
Social innovations that improve the health and resiliency of cities
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Social Services
Homelessness Innovations That Might Work
Ten Global Cities features a range of interventions that can, through dedicated collaboration, provide solutions to homelessness.
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Cities
Dissonance, Harmony, and Compassion
Rose’s bold theory, which offers a new framework for urban planning, could benefit from equally comprehensive recommendations about how to implement it.
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Civic Engagement
The People’s Budget
Participatory budgeting, which enables citizens to decide how to spend public funds, is building a more empowering model of democracy.
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Cities
Boulevards and Beltlines
How citizens can push back against urban sprawl and create vibrant, interconnected communities.
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Social Services
A First-Class Solution
The success of the Housing First movement shows why social service providers must listen to the people they serve.
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Health
Only in New York?
City officials under Mayor Michael Bloomberg made advances in public health that were important but hardly unique.
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Cities
A Tale of Two Futures
The sharing economy, as a feature of urban life, could evolve in promising or not-so-promising ways.
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Water
Future Thirst
Meeting the world's growing demand for water will require advances in technology that build on 3,000 years of progress.
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Cities
Saviors at City Hall?
Urban leaders offer a model for tackling big global problems that nation-states are failing to address.