Commentary and Analysis

Transportation and urban planning expert Sam Kling joins the Morning Shift to share his recommendations for how the incoming Lightfoot administration can change the parking meter deal.

The meter deal requires the city to maintain a vast, costly supply of on-street parking in central areas, even as demand for such parking progressively weakens.

The New York experience demonstrates how we can work together through city diplomacy to create meaningful impact.

Pedestrian deaths are at their highest rate in nearly 30 years, according to a new report issued by the Governors Highway Safety Association.

For the Midwest to thrive in the global economy, it needs to open its doors to the world, not shut it out.

Chicago plans on transitioning all of its buildings to 100 percent renewable energy by 2035 and to electrify the CTA bus fleet by 2040.

Global cities are the best candidates to form novel transnational political assemblages that can scale up to the level of global challenges.

Our international affairs are still being determined by nation-states, however, the imbalance between cities and nation-states is no longer acceptable.

Both the United States and Germany are seeing evolving economies in their respective "rust belts," formerly robust engines of the industrial era.

The product of a three-year effort, the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning's On to 2050 plan stresses big ideas but tells a more modest story.