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• Study: Top 3 Big Cities with Worst Roads Are in California
• Oct. 4, 2013
• The roads in greater Los Angeles are the most deteriorated in the United States, which costs Southern California drivers more than $800 a year, according to a national transportation analysis released Thursday.

• El Paso Teaches New Urbanism to Architects, Engineers
• Oct. 2, 2013
• Hoping to reinvent the sprawling city, El Paso officials decided to teach the development community the importance of new urbanism. Now, other cities are following in its footsteps.

• Can Cities Learn to Let People Share?
• Oct. 1, 2013
• Ride-sharing services and the uncertainty about how or whether to regulate them like taxi cabs illustrate a world where “ownership” is a rapidly changing concept.

• D.C. Awaiting Obama's Approval to Exempt Employees from Furloughs
• Oct. 1, 2013
• Separately, Mayor Vincent Gray has sought to designate all of the city’s 32,000 employees as exempt from shutdown furloughs

• October 2013 Last Look: Who Let the Dogs Out?
• Oct. 1, 2013
• The site of the now-demolished Detroit Tigers baseball stadium is now home to “pop-up dog parties.”

• Boston's New App Rewards Citizens for Reporting Problems
• Oct. 1, 2013
• For cities searching for ways to use mobile technology effectively, Boston's latest app offers a case study on how to do it right. It’s transforming the citizen/government relationship.

• Chicago Fights Gang Violence with Facebook
• Oct. 1, 2013
• After experiencing a homicide rate that earned it international attention last year, Chicago is upending the traditional style of policing and using social networks to rank people’s likelihood of killing and being killed.

• Houston: The Surprising Contender in America’s Urban Revival
• Oct. 1, 2013
• Even the country’s most sprawling, least dense, most automobile-dependent city in America is trying to adapt to people’s preference for urban living.

• White House to Free Up to $300M to Aid Detroit
• Sep. 27, 2013
• The White House will announce today nearly $300 million in new, repurposed and freed-up grants from the Obama administration and private foundations to help the ailing Motor City.

• New Mayor Wants Los Angeles to Get with the Times
• Sep. 26, 2013
• The mayor's signature initiative is a top-to-bottom modernization of an often-lumbering, 50,000-person bureaucracy that controls the critical machinery of daily life in Los Angeles.

• Boston Voters Narrow Candidates to Replace Long-Serving Mayor Menino
• Sep. 25, 2013
• The Boston mayoral contest is nonpartisan, though 11 of the candidates are Democrats, including Walsh and Connolly.

• Obama Endorses de Blasio for NYC Mayor
• Sep. 24, 2013
• President Barack Obama's endorsement Monday of Democrat Bill de Blasio for mayor didn't spring from a close friendship, but the two men's biographies nevertheless are marked by similarities, most notably their experiences in biracial families.

• Boston Mayoral Race Relies on Turnout
• Sep. 24, 2013
• Get-out-the-vote operations — GOTV, or “go-tee-vee,” in political shorthand — have defined winning campaigns in Massachusetts in recent years.

• Boston Police Commissioner to Resign
• Sep. 23, 2013
• Commissioner Edward F. Davis, whose seven-year tenure leading the Boston Police Department has been marked by falling violent crime rates and seared by the Marathon bombings in April, will announce Monday that he is resigning, and he will pursue a fellowship at Harvard University, according to a person with knowledge of his plans.

• Report Examines Why Cities Struggle Financially
• Sep. 20, 2013
• Detroit, Chicago and three other U.S. cities fell into financial distress for a variety of reasons, according to analyses of financial data released on Thursday.