The developing world is becoming more urban. Some observers see this as the unwelcome precursor to new poverty problems, such as urban slums blossoming in congested cities. Yet others see it as a ...

Since its founding in 1919, The New School has advanced progressive approaches to the study of cities and urban life. Our university’s degree programs, courses, and research centers, laboratories, and ...

I moved to the Lower East Side in the Spring of 1961 and was immediately struck by the housing conditions. Most of the blocks are covered by narrow five-story tenements, each housing from ten to ...

Move from New York to Dallas or Salt Lake City. Leave London behind. At Goldman Sachs Group Inc., some staffers will be getting a choice — and for many, not a welcome one. The bank is trying to ...

In New York and other cities where congestion pricing policies, bike infrastructure projects, and car bans have been put in place, cyclists are finding the streets more welcoming. Of course, the ...

Aquatint, New York from Heights near Brooklyn, 1823. I. N. Phelps Stokes Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox ...