For a brief period in the mid-’60s, Detroit was the Model City. Newspapers and magazines from coast to coast wrote admiringly of its young, progressive mayor, interracial civic committees, ...

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — The City of Kingsport is encouraging citizens to enroll in a new program that will educate the public about the role of city government in their daily lives. Model City 101 ...

Run a Google search for “gentrification” and you’ll get thousands of news items and scholarly articles on how urban revitalization risks pushing low-income communities out of cities. Despite all that ...

THE Manila Times (TMT) successfully wrapped up its 2025 Philippine Model Cities and Municipalities forum and awards, which named a fresh set of winners that embodied this year’s theme: “Environmental ...

Wakanda is a marvel. The fictional country of the Marvel Universe is the most advanced civilization in the world, years beyond the rest of the world in technological learning. But it’s a ...

When Indiana University shuttered its doors in March, Matthew Harrison found himself at home in Carmel, looking for new projects to keep him occupied. The 24-year-old hatched a plan: He would recreate ...

At what point do we admit that the Left-wing California city model is a failure? The latest development in California’s failing cities is in Oakland, with Gov. Gavin Newsom sending an additional 120 ...

“You take checks?” Loraine Hibbert asks Kenny the Juice Man. “Honey, we take everything,” Kenny Aube, self-described juice hustler, assures the owner of Shrimp, Wings & Things. Aube recently wandered ...

In late 2014, I had a chance to present on the main stage at the annual Code for America Summit in San Francisco. To the surprise of very few people, I was there to talk about cities and data. Earlier ...