Cities & Regions

Hemphill solar

The Avenue

How a conservative coal county built the biggest community solar energy project in East Kentucky

Thursday, March 26, 2020

grocery worforce

The Avenue

Grocery workers are keeping Americans alive during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s what they need.

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Quieter than usual scenes pictured in downtown Portland, Ore., on March 19, 2020, the first day of spring. Throughout the state gatherings are now limited to no more than 25 people for at least four weeks and bars and restaurants will be providing takeout services only as social distancing measures aim to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and flatten the curve. (Photo by Alex Milan Tracy/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

The Avenue

What the Great Recession can tell us about the COVID-19 small business crisis

Sifan Liu and Joseph Parilla

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

People walks cross a street practicing 'social distancing' at a commercial area of South Beach after local authorities restricted the activities of restaurants, bars, gyms, movie theaters and other similar businesses and rolled out a midnight curfew for precaution due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spread, in Miami Beach, Florida, U.S., March 20, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

The Avenue

The qualities that imperil urban places during COVID-19 are also the keys to recovery

Tracy Hadden Loh, Hanna Love, and Jennifer S. Vey

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Reports

Family

Demographics & Population

Even as metropolitan areas diversify, white Americans still live in mostly white neighborhoods

William H. Frey

March 23, 2020

Talented female architect teacher helping students with project for university coursework correcting mistakes in drawings and answer question during meeting in library with wifi zone and gadgets

Report

State policies to promote shared prosperity in cities

Solomon Greene, Alan Berube, John D. Ratliff, and Aaron Shroyer

March 26, 2020

A Washington Metro bus driver passes along a route wearing a face mask, as Mayor Muriel Bowser issued a State of Emergency in response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Washington, U.S., March 20, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner

Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Stimulus steps the US should take to reduce regional economic damages from the COVID-19 recession

Timothy J. Bartik, Brad Hershbein, Mark Muro, and Bryan A. Stuart

Friday, March 20, 2020

Delta Airlines planes and a British Airways plane (2nd L) are pictured at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, on the day Delta CEO Ed Bastian told employees he was cutting 40% of capacity in the coming months, the largest in the airline's history, in addition to pursuing aid, in SeaTac, Washington, U.S. March 13, 2020. REUTERS/Jason Redmond

Report

We should bail out airlines during the coronavirus pandemic—but on taxpayers’ terms

Adie Tomer and Joseph W. Kane

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Seattle skyline

Technology & Innovation

No matter which way you look at it, tech jobs are still concentrating in just a few cities

March 3, 2020

Blog Posts

Briell Decker, the 65th wife of jailed Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS Church) polygamist prophet leader Warren Jeffs, looks at an eviction notice on the window at his compound, where he lived for several years, in Hildale, Utah, U.S., May 3, 2017. She is in the process of purchasing the compound. Picture taken May 3, 2017. REUTERS/George Frey

The Avenue

Halting evictions during the coronavirus crisis isn’t as good as it sounds

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Jeanne Bonner, who made just $2 in tips one day last week as compared to $80 during a normal shift, works behind the bar at Latina Restaurant & Pizzeria near the General Motors Flint Truck Assembly where union auto workers are on strike in Flint, Michigan, U.S., October 9, 2019. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

The Avenue

COVID-19 will upend retail, but there are steps we can take to save it

Tracy Hadden Loh

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

A worker looks out from a near empty restaurant on North Avenue during the coronavirus outbreak in New Rochelle, New York, U.S., March 11, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Segar

The Avenue

The robots are ready as the COVID-19 recession spreads

Mark Muro, Robert Maxim, and Jacob Whiton

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

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Events

Playful Learning Landscapes: At the intersection of education and placemaking

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Five-star reviews, one-star profits: The devaluation of businesses in Black communities

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Boosting growth across more of America

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Experts

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Senior Fellow - Metropolitan Policy Program, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Center for Transformative Placemaking

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Multimedia

A bird flies over an apartment building along North Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland May 2, 2015. Thousands of people took to the streets of Baltimore on Saturday as anger over the death of young black man Freddie Gray turned to hopes for change following swift criminal charges against six police officers. REUTERS/Carlos Barria - GF10000082067

Policy 2020

How can government make housing more affordable?

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

A view of Sixth Street leading to the center of Bangor, Pennsylvania, U.S., April 30, 2019. REUTERS/Brian Snyder - RC1EA70F3DA0

U.S. Economy

The geography of prosperity: How to help the areas lagging behind

Jay Shambaugh and David Dollar

Monday, July 22, 2019

Apartment buildings are shown in downtown Los Angeles, California, U.S. October 2, 2018. REUTERS/Mike Blake - RC1DE752AF80

Up Front

Tackling zoning to help the middle class: 5 policy approaches

Tiffany Ford and Jenny Schuetz

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

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