Issue #196

We have a limited number of dense core neighborhoods where getting around without a car and without a lengthy daily commute are possible.

Several national organizations in the community development field have experienced transitions from white leadership to people of color.

All communities—especially those carrying heavy burdens of trauma and inequity—deserve the transformation and resilience that healing spaces can provide.

Transit providers are often major landowners in their communities. These sites are also opportunities to provide desperately needed affordable housing.

Aside from the health implications, the closure of a hospital in a rural community deeply impacts the area’s economic wellbeing. But in some cases, it can be avoided.

Reading Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman alongside Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas is a fascinating thought experiment.

Transportation is the second largest direct expenditure for American households, after housing. Of course transportation costs vary widely based on where you live, how far you have to travel to […]

As long as there’s a shortage of transit-rich, walkable neighborhoods, piecemeal solutions to address affordability issues won’t be enough.

While having door-to-door service might seem like an answer for areas poorly served by transit, it’s the wrong answer for both equity and ridership.

Health care providers and insurers are trying out new transportation models that could vastly benefit their patients—and their bottom lines.

For the last 30 years, Atlanta nonprofit Soccer in the Streets has been removing the cost barrier to soccer by offering free programs and uniforms. Two years ago, it increased access to the sport by constructing soccer fields on unused land owned by the city’s transit authority.

Three transit projects show how artists, transit agencies, and community groups helped communities envision more equitable outcomes.

If artists are going to bring their creative problem-solving selves to projects, they need to get involved when the problem is being identified.