Florida seniors face an increased risk of homelessness
Florida seniors are making up the growing portion of the state’s unpopulated population as the housing crisis continues, David Jones reports for WESH. “664 homeless people were counted in January, according to data from the Central Florida Homeless Services Network, an umbrella organisation of homeless advocacy groups in Orange, Osceola and Seminole Counties. Residents of […]
Milwaukee launches Vision Zero Plan
Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson has announced the city’s new Vision Zero Action Plan, which reduced traffic deaths by 7% between 2023 and 2024. As Jeramey Jannene reports in Urban Milwaukee’s report, “The new action plan adopted unanimously at the Common Council last week will build a safe path for all users by prioritizing the most […]
Mayor Houston kills another bike lane
Houston Mayor John Whitmire has defeated another proposed bike lane in an apparent war with cycling and pedestrian infrastructure, reports Dominique Anthony Walsh of public media in Houston. As Walsh explains, “The 1.6-mile West Alabama Street reconstruction project spread between Shepherd Drive and Spur 527, from Upper Kirby to Montrose to Midtown. However, Whitmire rejected […]
Florida home insurance companies disproportionately drop low-income households
Home insurance companies have refused to update policies for many Florida homeowners, claiming some of the state’s poorest residents at high risk of loss. Amy Green and Peter Aldhous’ Inside Climate News report that increasingly violent storms have urged insurers to raise fees sharply and to halt coverage in some states. A budget analysis by […]
Will the Reconnected Community Program survive Trump?
This work was originally published in a city state. Over the past year, I have been reporting on a Longform article in the Places Journal about the Rose Quarter Project in Portland, Oregon, the Biden administration’s most ambitious highway revision. The Marquee Project of the Reconnect Community Program places a four-acre cap on I-5 in […]
Robots Play Football in Beijing: A Glimpse into China’s Ambitious AI Future
While China’s human national football team may not be generating much buzz lately, a different kind of football match has captivated Beijing audiences: a fully autonomous, AI-powered competition featuring humanoid robots. hina’s AI Takes the Field: Humanoid Robots Play Autonomous Football Match in Beijing This groundbreaking event, held last Saturday night, saw four teams of […]
Half of Altadena’s home sales after the fire were to businesses.
According to an article by Yoonj Kim in Dwell, the company is quietly buying up a fierce property in Atlatadena, Altadena, California. Of the nearly 150 homes that have been on sale since the fire, Kim discovered that at least half of them have been purchased by business institutions. “This is not inherently surprising, as […]
Opinion: What San Francisco proposes “family zoning” really means
In the San Francisco Standard Opinion article, Thomas Getz invites readers to literally bring San Francisco Mayor Dan Lully’s “family zoning” proposal. Accepting that the proposal could be “verbal window dressing to pave the way for dense zoning and widespread development,” Getz argues that “family zoning” could mean something entirely. The “Family Zoning” concept provides […]
Frederick Wiseman: The biggest chronicler of the city of cinema
Imagine a city council meeting. Everything is brown or gray, and the furniture looks antique. One has members of the council, and the other has their members. These meetings take place every day around the United States, whether fewer than a dozen or hundreds of others appear. There are topics to discuss, claims to pass, […]
Adaptive Reuse Creates Homes in Suburban Texas Strip Malls
The strip mall redevelopment project in a small Texas town shows how to reuse extra parking to create new homes. According to an article in Tiffany Owens Reed’s Parking Reform Network, the Adaptive Reuse project is a partnership between progressive real estate developers and Habitat for Humanity, building 16 affordable townhouse units on the site. […]