From Better Cities and Towns: I live in a city that is currently updating its Community Plans. This is an historically difficult planning job because Community Plans transcends both broad policy statements (such as the amorphous...
Read MoreWe wrote recently about the need for a Memphis riverfront event, and one of the best event planners we know recommended Chattanooga’s River Rocks as one of the best in the U.S. Here’s a...
Read MoreFrom The Nature of Cities: Walk through any major city and you’ll see vacant land. These are the weed lots, garbage strewn undeveloped spaces, and high crime areas that most urban residents consider blights on the neighborhood....
Read MoreWe might wish the uproar from the convention halls of both parties these busy weeks were the wholesome clamor of delegates deliberating serious visions of how we should be governed for the next four years. It rises instead from...
Read MoreFrom Center for American Progress: In 1954 the Supreme Court declared that public education is “a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.”That landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education stood for the...
Read MoreFrom Institute for Local Self-Reliance: Choosing a locally owned store generates almost four times as much economic benefit for the surrounding region as shopping at a chain, a new study has concluded. The analysis also found...
Read MoreFrom Wall Street Journal: Cities from Los Angeles to Atlanta are making big bets to revitalize their downtowns by bringing back a form of transportation many abandoned decades ago: the streetcar. Some cities are counting on help...
Read MoreInside the Fresh Moves mobile grocery store — housed in a donated city bus — in Chicago Every morning, Madison, Wis., grocer Jeff Maurer fills a 40-foot air-conditioned trailer with fresh food from his local store, Fresh Madison...
Read MoreFrom Atlantic Cities: Anyone who’s lived in a famous city gets used to a byproduct: visitors. “We’d love it if you’d show us around,” they say, as soon as they drop their backpacks and rolling bags and check their...
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by Bill Day. Memphian Bill Day is two-time winner of the RFK Journalism Award in Cartooning. His cartoons are syndicated internationally by Cagle Cartoons. Cartoons Archive →