Our colleague Rob Forbes, founder of Design within Reach and at work on an exciting new urban project, tells The New York Times why parks and public space matter.

Read the article here.

Portland has become the epicenter of a new dining trend highlighted in Bon Appetit. 

Mobile street food carts have found a receptive audience in the city where the offerings “have been elevated from pedestrian fare to destination dining.…

With young adults 30 percent more likely to live within 3 miles of central business districts today (up from 10 percent in 1980 and 12 percent in 1990), access to jobs, educational opportunities, people and ideas, and the fact that new research points to real estate in more walkable neighborhoods…

If the world is so flat, then why are cities growing so quickly, especially in the third world?  That's the question Harvard economist Ed Glaeser attempts to answer in this NYT blog.  Growing cities are no accident, Glaeser writes. "Globalization and new technologies attract people to big cities, by…

This morning I've been reading an advance copy of Jeff Brugmann's new book, Welcome to the Urban Revolution: How Cities Are Changing the World, along with the new issue of Seed magazine. 

Both make the obvious (but much ignored) point that cities are bastions of efficiency, thanks to their density. …