From The Atlantic
Tanvi Misra
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Tanvi Misra is a staff writer for CityLab covering demographics, inequality, and urban culture. She previously contributed to NPR's Code Switch blog and BBC's online news magazine.
The Rise of the Sun Belt
National population growth has fallen to 1937 levels. But jobs and affordable living continue to attract people to certain parts of the country.
America’s Love of Sprawl Starts Right at the Border
Urban areas that straddle the U.S.-Mexico border have grown together, but in very different ways.
Grading Obama's Urban Policy Legacy
“I'm loath to reduce his work to just a grade. But if I were, I would probably say a B-.”
As It Gentrifies, Philadelphia Is Shedding Affordable Housing
Low-income neighborhoods that gained college-educated residents lost low-cost units at five times the rate of places that didn’t.
Why Did Bus Rapid Transit Go Bust in Delhi?
It’s supposed to be a more affordable and flexible way to move people around. But in one of the world’s largest and most congested cities, BRT just made everything worse.
The Stubborn Whiteness of White Neighborhoods
Even in the diversifying big cities, the average white person’s neighborhood is whiter than the metropolitan area he or she is in.
How to Jump Start the American Dream
The odds that kids will do better than their parents have plummeted. One possible fix: Learn from the neighborhoods in which income mobility is still thriving.
What Happened When 18 States Raised Their Minimum Wage?
Earnings rose, but not at the cost of employment.
The Middle-Class Metros That Put Trump in the White House
From Youngstown, Ohio, to Wausau, Wisconsin, it was the towns with big shares of middle-income households that flipped their political allegiances in 2016.
A Complex Portrait of Rural America
New Census data show that the real differences between the city and the country may not match up with popular perception.
Mapping the Inundation of New York City
A new report details the harrowing consequences of sea level rise.
Sprawl Will Cost India $1.8 Trillion Per Year by 2050
But investing in smart growth policies now can have huge economic returns, a new working paper says.
Delhi's Dumpling Divide
Tibetan “momos” are all over the Indian city, but the immigrants who make them still struggle for acceptance.
Not All Kids Benefit From Subsidized Housing
Children who are already flourishing get an educational boost, but those who’re struggling fare worse than peers in non-assisted housing, a new study finds.
When Nonprofits Are the New City Leaders
In some low-income neighborhoods, they’re regarded as more authentic representatives of the residents. That has good and bad consequences.
Rising Suburban Poverty Is a Bipartisan Problem
“The numbers really underscore how cross-cutting an issue poverty is—it’s not just a red or a blue issue or an inner-city or suburban issue.”
The Long, Strange History of Non-Citizen Voting
Proponents say that letting recent immigrants vote in local elections is as American as apple pie. Can this isolated practice overcome political pushback and become more widespread?
Trump's Supporters Don't See a Lot of Immigrants
Only 2 percent of U.S. counties contain a high number of people who voted for Trump in the primary, as well as Mexican immigrants and imports.
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