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We want our cities to be more affordable, more equitable, more vibrant and sustainable. Among the necessary fixes, former New York City planner Nolan...

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...

Award-winning writer, critic, and editor John Freeman joins Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell in a public conversation about Freeman’s...

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...

Novelist and critic Edmund White discusses his new memoir City Boy on Monday, February 22...

Kansas City author and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell sits down with one of the country’s most...

Kansas City novelist and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell sits down with author Elizabeth Ga...

In Gryphon, his career-spanning collection of short stories, author Charles Baxter offers yarns in which our acutely observe...