Urban

The Missouri Department of Transportation proposes three improvement options along Kingshighway and Jefferson Avenue between Chouteau and Forest Park avenues.

About 2 percent of architects in the U.S. are African-American. That’s a statistic Michael Ford wants to change by inspiring young people to think of new…

“If you didn’t know better you’d think we were prescient.”Washington University history professor Jean Allman was talking about a new cross-disciplinary…

When most St. Louisans want to see wildlife in Forest Park, they head for the St. Louis Zoo.But Forest Park Forever ecologist Peter VanLinn says there are…

The City of St. Louis has some of the highest home vacancy rates in the country, and last month the mayor of Detroit made news when he laid out ambitious…

Over the past four decades Richard Baron has made a name for himself as a pioneering developer of blighted urban neighborhoods. Baron’s firm, McCormack…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, May 15, 2012 - Clifton Gates' last home was a mansion on Lindell Boulevard. But when he wanted to…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Dec. 28, 2011 - St. Louisans groan when local, creative 20-somethings take their talents elsewhere.…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Oct. 25, 2011 - If you wonder why a Shakespeare expert might speak at a conference on cities on the…

Urban agriculture has taken root in cities everywhere, including right here in the River City. It comes in many forms: the community garden, the backyard…