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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...

Nationally renowned urban thinker Chuck Marohn, who kicked off the Library’s Making a Great City series in January 2018, returns to assess the crucial...

The all-female Ovarian Psycos bicycle brigade has been riding through Eastside Los Angeles since 2011, cruising barrios and boulevards where women...

The tragedy of December 14, 2012 – 20 schoolchildren and six adult staff members dying at the hands of a 20-year-old gunman in Newtown, Connecticut...

This is where technology has taken us: U.S. service members plotting and executing drone strikes half a world away, killing not only a faceless ene...

Alex Sutton, a veteran of three combat tours in Iraq, has been done with war for nearly a decade. But his fight is far from over. Dealing with&nbsp...

Lady Bird Johnson was no mere White House photo prop. The former Claudia Taylor once was described by husband Lyndon Johnson as “the brains a...

As a county sheriff and creator of Utah’s first SWAT team, William “Dub” Lawrence was once an unlikely critic of law enforcement. That SWAT team, howe...

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...

As part of the Making a Great City series, Jenny Schuetz, Senior Fellow at Brookings Metro, discusses her latest book Fixer-Upper: How to Repair Ameri...