Emergent social norms and polycentric governance strengthen civility.

Chicago made neighborhoods famous. Nevertheless, such character was not the result of a Zoning Ordinance. #KidCities

Brazil invited Joe Lambke to speak at Innovation Week 2021. He presented the KidCities mechanism, a tool for municipalities to manage the...

Joe Lambke presented the Community License Financing tool to Brazil's National School of Public Administration. It supports Urban...

The CTA used to be referred to as “rapid transit.” People need more than one kind of "mass-transit" experience. #infiniteTransit #KidCities

It's time for Chicago to re-think urban planning. Beyond anarchy... post-pandemic... an opening exists to build healthy. #KidCities

Joe Lambke contributed a human ecological perspective on urban form to Danielle Allen's Harvard Public Policy graduate course. Much of...

Urban Villages are small governance units of 100-500 people, nested and networked into a larger neighborhood or building that coordinates...

This Kid lives in a small Urban Village, one of thousands inside Chicagoland, with millions of other people. Set in the near future, the...

@Medium Change, especially grand in scope, happens in strange ways and can be similar to biological engineering: operational mechanisms...