Guest Commentaries

This is a special CitiesSpeak feature by Carlos Delgado, senior associate for the Rose Center for Public Leadership, and Aliza R. Wasserman, senior associate with NLC’s Race, Equity, And [...]

On Tuesday, the Tennessee House of Representatives voted to exact revenge on the city of Memphis — approving a measure to withhold $250,000 in funding that had been appropriated for the city’s [...]

Economic development was the most talked-about issue in 2017 State of the City speeches, according to recent analysis conducted by the National League of Cities. Further, “there is a sustained [...]

The tragedy of the Ghost Ship fire in Oakland earlier this month may be a difficult one for cities to absorb. How much was the fire a result of the underground activities and unsafe conditions in [...]

A new direction forward for transportation in east Charlotte. Overbudget and long-running road construction projects are common fodder for political cartoonists and water cooler banter. For [...]

The following is an excerpt from Designed for the Future: 80 Practical Ideas for a Sustainable World by Jared Green, published by Princeton Architectural Press, 2015. Idea: Build the community [...]

Bridj is a limousine startup company that tries to make commuting more efficient through a system based on ride sharing and dynamic data about where customers are—and where they want to go. It [...]

WalkDenver Chair Gideon Berger argues that Denver needs to invest in a more pedestrian-friendly future. In 1903, Vermont physician Horatio Nelson Jackson was visiting San Francisco when he got [...]

This week, the Urban Land Institute’s Rose Center for Public Leadership has sent experts in the fields of real estate, city planning, urban design and economic development — including me — to [...]

Portland is a city that's often better known by the representations of it—like the television show Portlandia—than as an actual working, breathing city, but as Winston Churchill noted, "a joke is [...]