People shop and hang out at a night market in central Kathmandu, Nepal, May 2014. (Dibrova/Shutterstock)

Citiscope: Placemaking and the promise of the New Urban Agenda

The priority given to place and public space in the New Urban Agenda, an international agreement on cities that will be finalized at the Habitat III conference in Quito, Ecuador this week, marks an important shift for the global development community. But this document is still playing catch-up to how communities and placemakers are mobilizing on this issue.

Restoring Providence Mansions

Jane Jacobs on Gentrification

Multiple articles about gentrification seem to spring up every week, and Jane Jacobs inevitably haunts nearly every one. Yet writers never seem to mention Jacobs’ own perspective on gentrification.