After a lawsuit and a decade of stalled development, a historic Black neighborhood’s community benefits fund is finally paying out. Here’s how they got there. nextcity.org/features/how...

Sponsored podcast: A network of organizations uses art, storytelling, and organizing as a blueprint for community power. nextcity.org/podcast/how-...

Op-ed: With a potential $1 trillion in federal costs shifting to states and localities, governments can't afford to duplicate efforts. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Podcast: Organizers in Los Angeles, New York City, and Kentucky are bringing together renters across entire portfolios of big landlords as they call for change on debt and maintenance. nextcity.org/podcast/tena...

Op-ed: What happened here can still happen in other cities. Local leaders should act now to ensure that the worst outcomes can be forestalled and resisted. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

By combining shelter and wraparound services under one roof, Urban Peak is moving homeless youth to permanent housing in 33 days. Here's how. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Applications for Vanguard Chicago close tomorrow at 11:59 p.m. ET. Vanguard brings together 40 rising urban leaders working across , planning, arts, entrepreneurship, policy, and more to explore what more equitable cities can look like. More Info: nextcity.org/vanguard/apply

A renter-friendly pilot program in New York City is aiming to reduce strain on the power grid while helping customers with power bills. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Sponsored: The longtime community hub is investing in Carnival artists, expanding cultural equity efforts, and launching a community-owned hotel to put power back in the hands of residents. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Attacks on voting rights, illegal land sales, and more. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Three new studies on green alleys, rain barrels, and daylighting urban streams hold important takeaways for urban planners across the country. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Op-ed: The 467-m tax abatement program's trade-off is skewed, giving developers huge tax breaks for insufficient affordability. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Ugly vacant buildings can create an impression of decline in many South Dakota small towns, but Centerville has given its downtown a rebirth. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Op-ed: Community-engaged partnerships between universities, governments and residents can turn academic knowledge into practical urban climate policy. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Decades of land reclamation left the city vulnerable to flooding. Now Boston faces harder questions: how to finance flood protection, whether to keep building on the waterfront, and whether retreat is the right move. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Op-ed: Public officials don't have to negotiate in a “prisoners’ dilemma” created by NDAs, consultant-driven urgency, and threats that Big Tech projects will go elsewhere. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Sponsored: With flexible funding and community governance, Boston Ujima Project is building a cooperative model for art, culture and democracy to drive wealth. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Roxbury, New Jersey, is one of many towns across the country that's citing city ordinances and environmental regulations to stymie plans to develop ICE detention facilities. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Government shutdown ends, water rights for Indigenous communities, and more. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

In her book Building a New Table, Dr. Brittany Lewis argues that centering community is the way to solve inequality — and provides a how-to guide. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

The City of Fresno’s anti-encampment ordinance has yet to yield any significant wins — not in court, through its own criminal diversion program, and now even among businesses. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Arleene Correa Valencia's debut exhibition is an unflinching response to the violence against undocumented people under the Trump administration. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Seven books for city leaders and community organizers to understand smart cities and the past, present, and future of urban technology infrastructure. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Join us for a conversation with “Dark Concrete” author Kimberley Johnson on how the Black Power movement played out at the local level and reshaped cities in the process. nextcity.org/events/detai...

Spanish housing justice organizers share what they’ve learned from more than 15 years’ worth of experience organizing a nationwide housing justice movement. nextcity.org/features/how...

Tomorrow at 1 p.m. Eastern, join us for a conversation with Kimberly Johnson on "Dark Concrete". We’ll explore how residents and organizers reshaped housing, education, and policing in cities like Newark, Oakland, and beyond, and what it means for community power today. nextcity.org/events/detai...

An architect and urban theorist argues that the techno-colonialism bred in Silicon Valley’s tech campuses is now being applied to cities — and the data center boom is its latest frontier. nextcity.org/features/tec...

Alternatives to policing, a drop in eviction rates, and more. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Op-ed: Local leaders can’t control interest rates or material costs, but they can streamline systems. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

A community development organization is taking a place-based approach to build and determine eligibility for housing. nextcity.org/features/bla...

Op-ed: A strategic, long-term co-creation process can help communities benefit from these public-private partnerships, rather than being left behind. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Op-ed: The same AI boom that's driving energy demand and electricity rates higher can fund home energy upgrades to make bills affordable — if cities take the lead. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Op-ed: Instead of treating new data centers only as land-use battles, communities can use them to expand fiber networks and build stronger local connectivity. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Op-ed: By demanding higher standards and engaging in cooperative purchasing, city and state governments can force AI companies to better serve the public good. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

When a secretive $1.6 billion data center proposal landed in Menomonie with almost no warning, residents had weeks to fight back. They won — and built a toolkit so other communities can, too. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

When a secretive $1.6 billion data center proposal landed in Menomonie with almost no warning, residents had weeks to fight back. They won — and built a toolkit so other communities can, too. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Data centers surveyed for energy use, World Cup transit fares, and more. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

The new book “Cities in Action” shows how civic capacity — strong nonprofit networks and engaged institutions — is what turns cities’ climate goals into real change. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

I can’t believe I had to write all this again. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

A similar rule was proposed in 2019, but was blocked by the overwhelming public comments against it. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

People Trust Community Federal Credit Union gave Little Rock's underbanked Black entrepreneurs a home. Now federal regulators have seized it — and industry leaders say they've seen this before. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

To help fill the gaps in its paratransit services, one Kentucky city is investing in microtransit initiatives developed by local nonprofits. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Op-ed: For disabled people, accessible public transit is the difference between being stuck in your house for years on end and having access to work, school, community, and joy. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Building workforce housing, as Oakland Unified and other districts have tried to do, is time-consuming and costly. What about buying existing buildings? nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

A Massachusetts initiative is making it easier for resource-strapped nonprofits to access federal tax credits for solar before they disappear. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Many cities' soil is degraded and locked away under concrete, so a pan-European team is planning to revive them through nature-based remediations. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Sponsored: Asian Arts Initiative called on cultural power to push back against the 76ers’ proposed arena. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Trump administration seeks to cut CDFI funding, a historic data center referendum, and more. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Op-ed: A recent survey of main street small businesses shows how small-scale manufacturers can help keep dollars in the local economy. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Join @nextcity.org & The 74 Wednesday, April 22, at 1 p.m. ET for a conversation about adaptive reuse of schools. In this webinar, speakers will explore what happens when schools are repurposed and brought back for community use. Moderated by @lrj417.bsky.social. RSVP: nextcity.org/events/rsvp/...