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Next City’s 2023 Gift Guide For City Lovers
Our gift recommendations for urbanists who care about creating equitable cities.
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Next City’s End-of-Year Give Guide
Here are our suggestions for places to give your cash during the 2023 holiday season and beyond.
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The Tiny Credit Union Powering Brooklyn’s Economy
What makes this particular credit union so special, how did it come to be – and what if there were more of them?
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How A Small Brooklyn Credit Union Punches Above Its Weight
The CEO of Brooklyn Cooperative Federal Credit Union shares its blueprint for building a sustainable institution that meets its communities’ growing needs.
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Next City’s Most Popular Stories of 2023
We've collected our top reporting and analysis from this year on the solutions that liberate cities.
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Year in Review: Our Favorite Next City Stories From 2023
Staff picked the stories that moved them this year — each shows the power of solutions journalism to highlight how people are creating cities where everyone can thrive.
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40-ish Milestones for Next City’s 20th Anniversary
We compiled proud moments from the nonprofit media outlet’s first two decades.
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These Guerilla Bus Benches Are Spurring Berkeley to Step Up for Bus Riders
Vigilante urbanism: A pair of activists have taken up the job of building seating at Berkeley’s bus stops. Will the city step up to meet the need – and fulfill its responsibilities to its residents?
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The Most Influential Role in Politics Isn’t the One You’re Thinking About
Mayors are engaged in next-level problem-solving.
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Gentrification’s Roots in the Post-Industrial City
Op-ed: De-industrialization isn’t just a Detroit story. It’s also the story of Silicon Valley, whose crown jewel, San Jose, urbanized to house workers for now long-outsourced microchip factories.
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In Philly’s Chinatown, a Community Workshop Envisions Alternatives to Sixers...
Chinatown residents are working on new proposals for the downtown strip where developers are planning a new basketball arena.
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Individualism Is Making Public Transit Worse
For buses and trains to work well, they must meet the needs of many different people at the same time.
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This Canadian Community Shows the Key to Thriving Black Urbanism
Op-ed: For Black urbanism to thrive, it needs proximity to Afrocentric social, physical and economic infrastructure.
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The Black Immigrant Women Who Bought a Minneapolis Mall
Lack of access to proper retail space was crippling these immigrant businesswomen in the Twin Cities. In forming a commercial real estate cooperative, they’re going far by going together.
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It’s Time for City Planners To Be Proactive About Church Property Transitions
Around the country, churches are closing, downsizing and selling their real estate. Urban planners need to be prepared.
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Affordable Housing Is Never the Only Problem – Or the Only Solution
Poverty doesn’t cause social breakdown, nor is social breakdown confined to areas with high levels of poverty, Seth Kaplan writes in “Fragile Neighborhoods.
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The Pandemic Investment That Allowed Gig Workers to ‘Break Free’
Receiving unemployment assistance and pandemic relief funds gave some gig workers space to breathe – and rethink their careers entirely.
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Africatown Is Still Trying to Breathe
Black and Hispanic communities in America's port cities are fighting an uphill battle against environmental racism and industrial expansion. Next up in Africatown, the Alabama neighborhood founded by...
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The Music Industry Chooses Winners and Losers. Cities Can, Too.
By creating a robust music ecosystem policy, cities can incubate talent and launch new stars, Shain Shapiro argues in his new book.
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Repair Cafes Are the Beating Heart of the Right-to-Repair Movement
Op-ed: Right-to-repair legislation is crucial to systemic change. But every item salvaged through America’s growing patchwork of local repair movements is its own victory.
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