Urban

A fox walks through a cemetery at dusk on January 10th, 2018, in Bath, England.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

In an age of employment uncertainty and a growing income gap, urban America needs to find new ways to infuse equity into the equation.

• By Brooks Rainwater

A jungle of reflective skyscrapers will usually be better off than a low-lying district of similarly shaped townhouses.

• By John Upton

Where we find innovation, we find industry clusters. That doesn't mean the two are causally linked.

• By Jim Russell

We continue to confuse population change with net domestic migration. Over the last 20 years, the U.S. has become increasingly rural even as many of its cities have grown.

• By Jim Russell

People vote with their feet. The regions with the best retention should be the regions with the best quality of place.

• By Jim Russell

Many of the efforts made to resuscitate dying cities aren't concerned with dying neighborhoods. Sometimes it's easier to just amputate the limbs to save the body.

• By Jim Russell

First introduced in 1992, the Housing First model suggested that we fight homelessness by first giving the homeless a place to live. Twenty-four years later, the study of a program in Hamilton, Ontario, sheds some light on how the system is working today.

• By Bettina Chang

Anxiety, mood disorders, and a heightened risk of developing schizophrenia: The psychological problems with urban living. (And some ways to potentially avoid them.)

• By Jared Keller

As long as talented people born in different places are coming together, even the Orkney Islands can be an innovation hub.

• By Jim Russell

How the 'burbs make room for risks.

• By Jim Russell

A new pair of studies helps to explain why city-dwellers seem to fall deeper in love with the urban environment the longer they spend there.

• By Eric Horowitz