About us

Next American City is a national magazine created for and by a new generation of urban thinkers and leaders. Delivering investigative features, thoughtful essays, interviews with urbanists on the frontlines of urban change, Next American City observes, documents and conceives realistic solutions about how to make cities better—how to ensure that future generations’ lives are improved, and not made more dangerous or unnecessarily complicated by the decisions we make.

Next American City is published by The Next American City, Inc., a 501(c)3 non-profit 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 publishing of a print and online magazine, events across the country, and advocacy on issues central to the future of cities.

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In the press

19th annual UTNE Independent Press Awards, 2007 - Nominee for “Best Social/Cultural Coverage”

Golden Dot Awards, 2007 – Nominee for “Best Social/Advocacy Blog”

“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

Board of Directors

Vicki Been
Seth A. Brown, Treasurer
Adam Gordon, Chair
Anika Singh
Vickie Tassan
Jayme Yen, Secretary

Advisory Board

(Affiliations for identification purposes only.)

Carl Anthony; Eugenie Birch, Penn Institute for Urban Research; Paul Brophy, Brophy & Reilly, LLC ; Vishaan Chakrabarti, Related Companies; Cynthia Farrar, Yale University ; Ester Fuchs, Columbia University; Joel Garreau; Alexander Garvin, Alex Garvin & Associates, Inc.; Paul Goldberger, The New Yorker; Hugh Hardy, H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture LLC; Bruce Heitler, Heitler Development; W. Lehr Jackson, Williams Jackson Ewing; Robert Liberty, Portland Metro Council; Paloma Pavel, Earth House, Inc.; David Serviansky, Landstar Homes; Janet Smith-Heimer, Bay Area Economics; Susan Wachter, Penn Institute for Urban Research

Next American City deeply appreciates the support of the Rockefeller, and Surdna foundations, blue moon fund and Rockefeller Brothers Fund.