Bookstores should be an essential part of the 15-minute city
Can bookstores build community? Proponents in Milan of a recently passed law that regulates discounts and promotes literacy think so.
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Cities embrace smoke-free public spaces
In the era of Covid, the effect of tobacco on health has proved to be even more dangerous. Some locales are responding by banning all smoking in public places.
Changing the lives of refugees through fashion design
By providing training and support, a new municipal project in Paris is aimed at giving refugees a first job and a second chance.
Atlanta is looking for a better way to organise its neighbourhoods. All 242 of them.
The city's outdated system of citizen advisory councils is under review. Here's what needs to change.
Austin is funding homelessness services by defunding police
Faced with a homelessness crisis and a commitment to fund alternatives to policing, the city council voted to create new supportive housing that operates with money diverted from the police budget.
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State and local aid will be contested under a Joe Biden presidency, too
As the president-elect's stimulus plans emerge, local leaders shouldn't get too excited for direct, flexible aid to bolster their flagging revenues.
How Paris’s participatory budget is reinvigorating democracy
Participatory budgeting allows residents to propose projects and vote on how they want to allocate a significant amount of municipal spending.
How Florida’s largest city is solving its sewage crisis
Jacksonville has invested millions to repair and upgrade its sewage system, but with the state's population growth, the ageing network cannot keep up.
US cities rein in food delivery apps on behalf of embattled restaurants
Cities across the US have passed emergency measures to cap fees that apps like Grubhub and DoorDash charge restaurants. Those moves so far only scratch the surface of a more entrenched conflict.
China’s Gilded Age shows how corruption infects bureaucracies and economies
The professor and author Yuen Yuen Ang outlines four types of government corruption and the ways they can harm or assist economic growth.
State and local protections helped the US avert the worst-case evictions crisis this year
Recent analysis from the Eviction Lab finds that moratoriums significantly reduced the rate of expulsion filings in US cities, but many of those protections are set to expire soon.
Mumbai’s Coastal Road is an old mistake applied to a new problem
This major infrastructure project may or may not solve the city's traffic woes, but it will leave a vibrant fishing community in its wake.
Berliners want to expropriate 250,000 homes. Here’s what stands in their way
A group of housing advocates are hoping a new referendum will transfer ownership of a quarter of a million apartments to the people.
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