Kansas City

A profile of Kevin Klinkenberg, Kansas City urban planner and architect, talking about his love for the city and the work he's done to make it a better place.

Director of the White House Office of Urban Affairs Adolfo Carrion, Jr. visited Kansas City on Tuesday to visit the site of the city's new "Green Impact Zone". The inner-city Zone will be a laboratory for energy-saving techniques.

Neal Peirce looks at a few examples where regions have pooled their powers to utilize ARRA stimulus funds to create programs and jumpstart regional efforts.

Kansas City has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in a new indoor arena with the hopes of luring a pro basketball or hockey team. But a year and a half after opening, nobody's biting.

How is Kansas City to make itself sustainable? This blog offers 13 strategies, one posted a day, from experts in different fields.

A sales tax plan to fund light rail in Kansas City has failed.

In metropolitan Kansas City, two sales tax initiatives on the ballot in efforts to raise money for the region's long-planned light rail system.

Streetcars and rail in place of bus rapid transit said to jeopardize federal funding.

Columnist E. Thomas McClanahan reviews a new public space in Kansas City, and finds a lot to like in the urban design.