About Us
Next American City
2816 West Girard Avenue
Philadelphia, PA, 19130
info@americancity.org
Next American City is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, dedicated to promoting socially and environmentally sustainable economic growth in America’s cities and examining how and why our built environment, economy, society and culture are changing. We achieve this goal through the publication of our quarterly magazine and interactive website, our emerging leaders program, events across the country, and advocacy on issues central to the future of cities. Through these programs, we observe, document, and conceive realistic solutions about how to improve cities—how to ensure that future generations’ lives are improved, and not made more dangerous or unnecessarily complicated by the decisions we make. We do so from the front lines of urban change and innovation.
Next American City deeply appreciates the support of the Ford Foundation, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Living Cities, National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, Surdna Foundation, William Penn Foundation, Dan & Joanna Rose as well as our many other generous donors across the country.
Support our work by making a 100% tax-deductible donation to Next American City today.
Our Team
Diana Lind, Editor in Chief
Ariella Cohen, Executive Editor
Matt Bevilacqua, Associate Editor
Tony Smyrski, Creative Director
Sana Venjara, Editorial Assistant
John Katz, Intern
Our Partners
A good local journalist knows his or her city’s stories better than anyone 100 miles away. That’s why Next American City is changing the way it reports on daily urban affairs.
From now on, our free daily web offerings will include the best urban policy and practice stories from partner organizations based in cities around the country. By doing this, we aim to become a more comprehensive and inclusive national platform for local voices. Our partners vary in scope, scale, mission and form. Some are 501(c)(3) nonprofit urban news organizations like us, others are websites owned and operated by a talented, passionate individual like Yonah Freemark at The Transport Politic. Yet what all share is a commitment to independent journalism about cities and the people who inhabit them. We believe that by co-publishing content from partner organizations we can help to broaden the content’s reach while ensuring that the national urban policy debate reflects on-the-asphalt realities in neighborhoods far from Capital Hill. We help our readers by providing a curated yet diverse portal for the latest urban affairs journalism.
We started 2012 with only six partners but aim to end it with 100 participating websites. Over the next several months, we plan to forge new partnerships and build new conversations. As we grow, we plan to experiment with new collaborations and projects, ranging from a single co-sponsored event to a series of shared initiatives.
Our current partners include –
Alhambra Source
City Limits
Feet in Two Worlds
Greater Greater Washington
The Lens
New Jersey Spotlight
nextSTL
Rust Wire
The New York World
The Philadelphia Public School Notebook
Seattle Crosscut
The Transport Politic
We are growing daily. Please write to ariella@americancity.org if you are interested in becoming a partner.
Board of Directors
- Eugenie Birch, Penn Institute for Urban Research
- Bruce Katz, The Brookings Institution
- Andrew Kleeman, Vernon Energy Trading
- Neil Kleiman, New York University
- Barin Nahvi, Hearst Innovation
- Tamar Shapiro German Marshall Fund
- Roger Williams, RW & Associates
- Jess Zimbabwe, Urban Land Institute
Board Emeritus
- Vicki Been, New York University
- Paul Brophy, Brophy Reilly LLC
- Seth Brown, Aspen Equities
- Adam Gordon, Fair Share Housing Center
- Michelle Kuly Holland, Scatliff+Miller+Murray
- Anika Singh Lemar, Wiggin & Dana
- Vickie Tassan, Ally
Winner, “Best Redesign”
—2008 Ozzie Awards
Nominee for “Best Social/Cultural Coverage”
—19th annual UTNE Independent Press Awards, 2007
Nominee for “Best Social/Advocacy Blog”
—Golden Dot Awards, 2007
“Let others of their generation produce the next killer computer code or breakthrough indie film, this group believes that the road to global transformation runs through the realm of—get ready—housing, transportation and land use policy.”
—New York Times
“Next American City ... emerges out of the knowledge that cities cannot be frozen in time and have to grow and change—but that the next generation will have to do better than the suburban sprawl that decimated our cities over the last century.”
—Paul Goldberger, The New Yorker
