44+ min ago   (220+ words) Every day, The Overhead Wire collects national and international news about cities and sends the links to their email list. At the end of the week they post some of the most popular stories to Greater Greater Washington, a group…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (200+ words) However (as loath as I am to admit this as a Hawkeye), perhaps the most comprehensive documentation of these student housing schemes is Pammel Court, at Iowa State University in Ames. The local history museum provides some figures as to…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago   (399+ words) The anger is fast and bright and for a moment, the idea of yelling feels like cathartic justice. And then you scream at the driver. It feels good to yell at bad drivers. But it doesn’t do anything. Not an…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago   (787+ words) Streets.mn Southward along the Pacific Coast from Long Beach and Los Angeles is the county of Orange, independent from the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Traveling by car from Irvine to Downtown Los Angeles to arrive at 8:00 am can be…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (264+ words) Supporters say it’s time to set statewide standards to allow more homes, and that we wouldn’t be the first. Over 25 states have enacted some form of statewide law allowing accessory dwelling units, more homes near jobs, and other home types....

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (581+ words) Across the country various freeway removal proposals show great promise for making cities better for the people that live there. There are those that have been done such as the Embacadero Freeway in San Francisco that have shown how cities…...

5+ mon, 14+ hour ago   (307+ words) So rarely do we talk about our streets this way. In many communities — especially lower‑income neighborhoods and racially‑marginalized communities — the street is the only public room available. But too often streets have been designed for speed, enforcement, and…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (217+ words) Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared as an opinion column in the Duluth News Tribune on January 28, 2026. I propose an immersed tube holding two tracks for trains and a 20-foot-wide pedestrian and bicycling lane under the St. Louis…...

6+ mon, 5+ day ago   (192+ words) Streets.mn We’re going through a lot, Streets.mn community. While the events committee had some bigger plans over the next couple of months, our response (both visible and invisible) to the current federal occupation has taken a lot of…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago   (810+ words) Encampments are a highly visible example of the inability to house all residents. Minneapolis city and Hennepin County officials stressed to us the relative success of their strategies addressing housing security, citing a 33 percent decrease in unsheltered homelessness in Hennepin…...