Houston’s new hike-and-bike trail connection between White Oak Bayou Greenway and Buffalo Bayou trails marks another milestone for the Bayou Greenways 2020 project, an initiative to transform underutilized land along nine major waterways into a 150-mile linear park and trail system.

Going green is a cornerstone of contemporary urban policy planning—and cultivating a green identity has become vital in boosting a city’s economic profile. But in the race to develop these initiatives, some cities are proving better at branding than in actually creating equitable green spaces for all citizens.

While there seems to be significant community support around a proposal to transform a neglected elevated railroad line into a linear park in Buffalo, New York, there’s some concern that the participants in the planning process don’t represent the racial and ethnic diversity of the city.

This project helps kids understand how many spaces they’re excluded from, and then asks them to imagine new kinds of public spaces that would serve them better.

Brian McGowan, President and CEO of Atlanta BeltLine Inc., talks transit, housing, foreign investment, and the 22-mile project’s role in fostering inclusion amid Atlanta’s new era of breakneck growth.

A new flurry of construction on St. Paul’s West Side has prompted discussion within the community about what development should look like in their neighborhood.

This week, the Detroit RiverFront Conservancy announced that New York City-based Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates and British architect David Adjaye will lead the transformation of West Riverfront Park.

In the most powerful world cities, inequality and unaffordability have gone hand in hand with growth. Can Berlin learn from these cautionary tales of urbanization and grow inclusively?

A new park in Pittsburgh will attempt to reconnect the Hill District to downtown. Like many low-income neighborhoods of color, the Hill District was gutted by urban renewal projects and cut off from downtown by a highway project in the 1950s.

There’s growing concern that the construction of light-rail transit along the full Atlanta BeltLine loop may not be moving forward as planned. As MARTA officials work to finalize what they can afford to build with the limited funding available, an advocacy group is mobilizing citizens to demand transit for the BeltLine.