Vital City

Vital City is a platform for ideas about how to improve civic life. We publish timely commentary by the thinkers and practitioners shaping urban policy, surface data and render it accessible, and identify evidence-based policies to make cities safer and more vibrant. This app brings the whole publication to your phone, free, with no advertising and no paywall. Read what's new Every piece Vital City publishes, as it goes up. Swipe from one story to the next the way you would turn a page, and pick up where you left off. See the data Interactive charts and tools built on New York City's own numbers: crime going back more than 30 years, quarterly statistics the city releases in raw form, and the analysis behind the stories. Share any chart as a picture. The journal Each issue takes on one hard question about the city, answered by researchers, practitioners and people who live with the problem. Policy Deeply researched recommendations for the people who run New York City, and the case for putting them into practice. Follow the writing you like Tap any byline to see everything that writer has published. Browse by topic, or search the full archive. Save for later Keep pieces to read when you have time. Saved stories stay on your phone and open without a signal. Listen and watch After Hours with Jamie Rubin, plus panels, interviews and reels from Vital City events. New York, as it was A rotating shelf of photographs from library and museum archives, refreshed every week. Alerts, if you want them Choose to be told when something new is published. Nothing else, ever. Vital City is a fiscally sponsored project of the Fund for the City of New York. Reading is free and always will be.