Cities

Mayor Dickens, City of Atlanta convert shipping containers to housing for homeless

Going beyond instruction, community schools serve as ‘hubs in the community’

Big-box retail chains were never a solution for America’s downtowns − and now they’re fleeing back to suburbia

A First Amendment battle looms in Georgia, where the state is framing opposition to a police training complex as a criminal conspiracy

Young men in violent parts of Philadelphia, Chicago die from guns at a higher rate than US troops in the heat of battle

Philadelphia bans supervised injection sites – evidence suggests keeping drug users on the street could do more harm than good

Why more cities are hiring ‘night mayors’ and establishing forms of nighttime governance

Atlanta’s BeltLine shows how urban parks can drive ‘green gentrification’ if cities don’t think about affordable housing at the start

Removing urban highways can improve neighborhoods blighted by decades of racist policies