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Kristen Iversen, author of Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth, examines the colorful life of the famed “unsinkable” Molly Brow...

Chuck Marohn, founder of the nonprofit Strong Towns, launches the Making a Great City series with a critical look at how we build our cities and towns...

Urban planner Joe Minicozzi looks at the “math” of effective city building, i.e., the financial implications of land use decisions in municipalities l...

Urban designer Jim Kumon looks at the resurgence of small-scale urban neighborhoods in Los Angeles, Denver, and Minneapolis, among other cities, and h...

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

Which areas offer Kansas City the greatest potential for smart long-term growth? Urban planner Joe Minicozzi and Chuck Marohn, founder of the nonprofi...

Kansas City has an infrastructure problem. Simply put, it can’t afford what it needs. Dennis Strait of the Kansas City studio of Gould Evans, an archi...

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...

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

Homer Plessy—a man of seven-eighths Caucasian descent and one-eighth African descent who was nevertheless considered black under Louisiana law—boarded...