Rethinking urbanism in Minneapolis and why students won’t be lighting up in Copenhagen.

In the first of a new series looking at US cities and the people fixing them, we stop off at Albuquerque to find out why New Mexico’s most populous city is on the up.

The future of transport in LA, symphonies for cities and using mobiles for mobility in Vilnius.

City dwellers pine for attractive and usable spaces; city planners are beginning to take note. We visit the places where poetic verses are daubed on streets, statues of dogs add a dose of whimsy and ‘playable pavements’…

Oslo’s governing mayor on how to green a city, a Mexican city gets a rebrand, car-sharing in Slovenia and Berlin’s rooftops are blooming.

Istanbul ups the war on plastic and we have a word with Labour peer Andrew Adonis.

Toronto’s mayoral race is heating up, Zürich’s mayor tells us what her city is doing right and one of Venice’s bridges gets a revamp.

Animal welfare in Montréal, Munich reaches for the sky, tourism in Slovenia that’s the bee’s knees and Warsaw city councillor Jan Spiewak has his say.

Urban transformation often begins on a local scale, as these inspiring initiatives prove

Moscow has been undergoing a massive programme of urban renewal but this scheme to make the city more liveable isn’t without its costs.

Be it Brazil or Beirut, effective urban regeneration needs ideas from residents who understand their city’s problems and potential. Here’s a global line-up of innovative citizen initiatives.

A school of cities in Toronto, São Paulo tries to do dockless bikes right and can a park in South Carolina bridge racial divides?

The duo connecting city-dwellers with nature and Athens’ city hall asks residents for ideas.