City Limits invited readers to go on camera and explain why the most important issue to them in this election year should matter to us, too. Ocesa Keaton of Syracuse took us up on the offer.
From Boston to Portland and in places like Vancouver and Sydney, local governments are taking aggressive steps to prevent development that uproots people of limited means.
No, not the 1987 Patrick Swayze movie. The nation’s mayors want a little new infrastructure, and then some more new infrastructure, if Hillary Clinton is elected.
Does it matter that this year’s Democratic manifesto mentions ‘cities’ only twice, whereas that word was used 10 times when voters last elected a president?
Policy makers, urban planners, and the private sector often attack civic problems with a top down approach. But when designers think about civic challenges, they look at them from the street-level.
A new survey by the U.S. Conference of Mayors of the chief executives of cities large and small finds common ground and shared challenges across a number of policy issues: infrastructure, policing, housing, finance and more.
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