Urban-farming innovators such as Detroit and Cleveland offer an object lesson in how cities can transform disused land into tomorrow’s (healthy) dinner.
This year, the U.S. government will funnel $6 million to a select group of medical visionaries. Their mission: Fine-tune programs to solve life-and-death problems in our health-care system. Here are five of the most promising options.
The Oregon city is the first to use IBM's app to help cities figure out how policy can affect the lives of their citizens. But can any algorithm quantify the whole experience of city living?
States with the highest percentage of female bike commuters--who tend to join in as biking gets safer--are doing the best job at making biking more accessible for everyone. A look at the top 10 cities.
In honor of our Fast Cities Breakfast coming up on June 22, we spoke with Portland mayor Sam Adams, who, in his first State of City address last February, vowed to make Portland "the most sustainable city in the world."
