It was mid-January 1997, the coldest day of the year, when city planners descended on Salt Lake City. They worked in a strange profession, a mixture of architecture, engineering and philosophy.

If San Diego is ever going to become a truly urban place, coastal neighborhoods will have to be built out more densely. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi) This is your first of three free stories this month.

Amy Silverstein’s cover story here last week, “Road Runners,” exploded one of my own favorite and time-honored paradigms; the city versus the suburbs. Silverstein exposed a scenario in which people in ...

In Providence, Newark and Ann Arbor, new housing goes up every day as more and more families move into the region. Buffalo also builds a lot of new housing, but with a difference: Here, the number of ...

On Tuesday, a critic of the impact of urban renewal toured Roanoke, one of three U.S. cities examined in Mindy Fullilove's "Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Atlanta is America’s sprawliest city, and it shows. The sprawl ...

The University of California opened its doors in 1869 with just 10 faculty members and 40 students. Today, the UC system has more than 300,000 students and 265,000 faculty and staff, with 2.5 million ...