Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was mid-January 1997, the coldest day of the year, when city planners descended on Salt Lake City. They worked in a strange ...

If San Diego is ever going to become a truly urban place, coastal neighborhoods will have to be built out more densely. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi) This is your first of three free stories this month.

Urban sprawl is not just unsightly. It could also be impeding intergenerational mobility for low-income residents and reinforcing racial inequality, according to a series of recent studies led by a ...

Amy Silverstein’s cover story here last week, “Road Runners,” exploded one of my own favorite and time-honored paradigms; the city versus the suburbs. Silverstein exposed a scenario in which people in ...

Renewable energy, urban sprawl and affordable housing were some of the hot city topics Colorado Springs City Council candidates tackled Thursday. The four candidates competing in District 3, southwest ...

The University of California opened its doors in 1869 with just 10 faculty members and 40 students. Today, the UC system has more than 300,000 students and 265,000 faculty and staff, with 2.5 million ...