Why is it so hard to change our cities, even when it’s obvious to everyone that things need to change? Maybe we’re just looking at things the wrong way.

Scenes from a new film on post-Katrina New Orleans, which chronicles the city’s troubled attempts to deal with its destruction, while planning its reconstruction.

Photo by Oren Ziv, courtesy of Activestills.org.
This past weekend, a couple friends and I helped four Sudanese families move out of Tel Aviv. We rented a van (which of course broke down mid-move), loaded up their possessions along with some furniture donated by several kind people, and set off for Nazareth, Hadera and Ashdod – [...]

A few days after T and S, refugees from South Sudan, had their first daughter, they were forced to leave Tel Aviv. By Florentine Lempp.

Israel’s new point man on refugee issues spouts some pretty shocking opinions in an interview with Haaretz.

A rapprochement (perhaps) in Tel Aviv.

“These days we are definitely green, we’re just not quite sure what that means yet.”

A rendering of the future park. (Image by Studio 36, via citydov.org.)
“Nobody said it was easy. No one ever said it would be this hard,” sang Coldplay.
For a group of neighbors in central Tel Aviv, who set out over a decade ago to transform an abandoned lot in their neighborhood into a park, no [...]

Finally, a plan to build fast trains in America.

Darfur refugees living in Tel Aviv demonstrate in favor of the decision to issue an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. A photo essay by Daniel Cherrin.