The New Republic

Author Alan Ehrenhalt says that conditions are ripe for the permanent return of downtown residential neighborhoods, and that a "demographic inversion" has already begun in Manhattan, Chicago and Washington, DC, among other cities.

A new book ponders the state of the Everglades after decades of urban encroachment, and how we may restore them to their natural splendor.

New Orleans can learn a lot from the flood rebuilding of Grand Forks in 1997.

The housing boom is likely to last. That's the good news...and the bad news.

The idea that American cities have made a comeback has been uncritically embraced. Unfortunately, cities aren't doing as well as we think they are, writes Joel Kotkin.

The proposed plans for the redevelopment of Ground Zero demonstrate how little has changed in the last year, writes Martin Filler.