The Minnesota Justice Research Center (MNJRC) is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to driving meaningful change to Minnesota’s criminal legal system through rigorous and community-centered research, education, and policy development.

The Minneapolis Downtown Improvement District works to make downtown Minneapolis safer, cleaner, greener, and more welcoming. Created in 2009, the district provides enhanced public-realm services while coordinating closely with businesses, property owners, public agencies, and community partners on the everyday experience of downtown.

Shane Zahn is Senior Director of Community Safety for the Minneapolis Downtown Council and Downtown Improvement District, where he has helped shape downtown safety strategy since the DID’s creation in 2009.

Susan Hughes is an award-winning Canadian author whose work spans children’s fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels, and picture books. She has written more than 30 books for young readers, often exploring history, community, social issues, and the ways people understand the world around them.

Her books include Walking in the City with Jane: A Story of Jane Jacobs, illustrated by Valérie Boivin, which introduces young readers to Jacobs and the observations about everyday city life that shaped her thinking

Susan Hughes’ illustrated children’s book introduces young readers to Jane Jacobs through the curiosity and careful observation that shaped her ideas about cities. It follows Jacobs from her fascination with everyday urban life to her celebrated fight against plans that threatened New York neighborhoods.

SF Slow is a Jane’s Walk created by BIG Creative exploring the ways San Francisco tells its story through streets, buildings, public spaces, memory, and change. Part walking tour and part conversation, it invites participants to slow down and read the city together.

Jane’s Walk is an annual festival of free, community-led walking conversations inspired by Jane Jacobs.

On the first weekend of May every year, Jane’s Walk festivals take place in hundreds of cities around the world.

The GeoSpatial Hub supports urban professionals and organisations in turning spatial data into decision-ready insight.

All Things Urban is a global platform connecting people who work on cities with jobs, organizations, events, education, and ideas from across the urban field. Founded by Anastasia Sukhoroslova, it helps make an unusually interdisciplinary profession feel more like a connected global community.

Sarah Luca is an urbanist and community builder who served as chair of the board of Jane’s Walk, the global movement of free, community-led walking conversations inspired by the work and ideas of Jane Jacobs.

Anastasia Sukhoroslova is a Berlin-based urbanist, community builder, and founder and CEO of All Things Urban, a global platform connecting urban professionals with ideas, opportunities, organizations, and one another. What began as an effort to connect a highly interdisciplinary field has grown into a community approaching 100,000 people around the world, spanning planning, mobility, sustainability, technology, design, and other forms of citymaking.

This essay from Filipeanut traces the evolution of the Philippine jeepney from prewar jitneys and autocalesas through the repurposing of American military jeeps after World War II and their emergence as one of the country’s most recognizable forms of public transportation. It explores the jeepney as both a remarkably accessible, locally created transit system and an expression of Filipino culture, while examining the difficult questions of pollution, safety, affordability, livelihoods, and cultural heritage raised by efforts to modernize the fleet.

CicLAvia transforms Los Angeles streets into temporary car-free public spaces, inviting people to walk, bike, skate, and experience the city at a different pace. Inspired by Bogotá’s Ciclovía, the recurring events connect neighborhoods across Los Angeles while demonstrating how streets can become places for movement, community, exploration, and everyday public life.

Although many young people travel independently in the city, transportation research seldom considers the experiential qualities of their routes, focusing instead on the functional aspects of mode choice. More in-depth understanding of how adolescents experience, negotiate, and perceive everyday mobility can support informed design, policy, and planning interventions to make these journeys safer and more enjoyable

tamika l. butler (she/her or they/them) is a doctoral student in Urban Planning at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs. Her research employs a critical race, historical, legal, and policy-based approach to examine how transportation policy and infrastructure have been used to segregate, isolate, and prevent the mobility of Black and other historically oppressed groups of people.

MJB Consulting is a retail planning and real estate consulting firm focused on helping downtowns, commercial districts, developers, and communities understand what makes retail environments work. Based in New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area, the firm approaches retail as more than a collection of shops and restaurants: because it occupies the ground floor and meets people directly at the sidewalk, retail plays an outsized role in how a street, district, or community is experienced.

Storefront Mastery works with downtown organizations, local governments, and independent businesses to turn storefronts into active contributors to the life and economic health of their districts. Founded by Jaime Izurieta, its approach treats the storefront not simply as the entrance to a business, but as the place where commerce meets the public realm—and where design, storytelling, hospitality, and customer experience can help give a street its identity.

Jaime Izurieta is an architect, designer, urban development consultant, and founder of Storefront Mastery, where he works with downtown organizations and small businesses to rethink the relationship between storefronts, sidewalks, and thriving local economies.

Michael Berne is a retail planning and real estate consultant whose work focuses on the role shops, restaurants, and ground-floor businesses play in the life of downtowns and commercial districts. Through MJB Consulting, he advises cities, districts, developers, and communities on retail strategy and urban vitality.

Vote Every Day is a civic-minded board book for grown-ups by Evan Weissman, built around the idea that democracy is something we practice continuously—not simply something we do at the ballot box. Playful, provocative, and deliberately accessible, it turns civic participation into an everyday proposition.