
Cities around the world are looking to get quieter and more peaceful
Music teacher and composer Haskell Small remembers when the noise became too much for him.
Washington-based writer and editor reporting on development, cities and property rights for the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Music teacher and composer Haskell Small remembers when the noise became too much for him.
On a recent Sunday, across the Potomac River from the U.S. capital, two pre-teen girls were dusting off a refurbished dresser near a busy road, stocked with fruit, canned goods, toothpast...
For some, human rights are not enough - it's nature's turn, now.
In Bosnia, after the war in the 1990s, residents put rebuilding a 400-year-old bridge ahead of fixing their own roofs. In Nepal, repairing the nation's historic sites brought people toget...
With a mix of Christian charity and pragmatism, churches are quietly creating low-income housing in areas around Washington - and cities across the United States are taking notice.
With its prime location and rapid development over the past decade, the Columbia Heights neighbourhood commands among the highest rents in the U.S. capital — already one of the most expen...
When Jamil Bey wanted to move back to the Pittsburgh neighborhood where he had grown up, he found the perfect house to buy. There was just one problem - a fall in property values on that ...
The past couple of years have been a roller-coaster for Maurice Cushinberry - first of homelessness, substance abuse and legal trouble, and then of sudden stability.