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What does it mean to be a “great city”? Since 2018, the Library has hosted public presentations by urban planners and round-table conversations with c...

University of Virginia transit historian Peter Norton examines the need to revise our concept of city streets. They’re now so car- and speed-centric t...

Memphis, a sprawling, river-flanked, music- and barbecue-imbued city some 7½ hours to the south, offers some important lessons in development for Kans...

Tiffany Elder, co-chair of a Durham, North Carolina-based consortium called The Collective, talks about its work to facilitate equitable city building...

What is Kansas City’s master plan for the next 20 years? The city’s three principal planning officers, Jeffrey Williams, Diane Binckley, and Kyle Elli...

Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) commemorates Veterans Day with a script-in-hand reading of Aaron Sorkin’s sizzl...

Kansas City-based urban planner, designer, and architect Kevin Klinkenberg examines why and how cities being reinvented today, who the winners and los...

Keith Culbertson, the chairman and CEO of Design Workshop and a George Kessler historian, launches a three-part study of Kansas City’s distinctive sys...

A little more than two weeks before Christmas, members of Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) delivers two script-i...

Commemorating Veterans Day, members of Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) deliver a script-in-hand performance of...