Nicole Flatow

Nicole Flatow

Managing Editor:Bloomberg CityLab

Nicole Flatow is the managing editor for CityLab in Washington, D.C.

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Madrid Faces an Identity Crisis as Luxury Tourism Threatens Small Venues

Madrid Faces an Identity Crisis as Luxury Tourism Threatens Small Venues

Also this week: Kansas City’s mayor talks World Cup, and Manchester’s mayor talks politics.

May 1, 2026

May 1, 2026

Madrid Faces an Identity Crisis as Luxury Tourism Threatens Small Venues

Also this week: Kansas City’s mayor talks World Cup, and Manchester’s mayor talks politics.

Madrid Faces an Identity Crisis as Luxury Tourism Threatens Small Venues

January 6, 2026

January 6, 2026

Are Self-Driving Cars Really Safer Than Human Drivers?

Also today: NYC taxis and buses pick up speed with congestion toll, and how the Dutch intersection works.

Waymo Seeking Over $15 Billion Near $100 Billion Valuation

November 23, 2025

November 23, 2025

CityLab’s Most Popular Stories This Week

September 28, 2025

September 28, 2025

CityLab’s Most Popular Stories This Week

August 27, 2025

August 27, 2025

How Trump Is Expanding Control of Local Crime Policies

Also today: Trump moves to reclaim control of DC’s Union Station, and a tactic for preventing bridge disasters.

Trump Warns ‘Not Playing Games’ In Visit To Federal Police In DC

August 12, 2025

August 12, 2025

How DC’s Mayor Is Responding to Trump’s Police Takeover

Also today: Brussels’ colonial statues remain years after protests, and California delayed home fire protection rules ahead of LA wildfires.

Muriel Bowser

December 22, 2024

December 22, 2024

CityLab’s Most Popular Stories This Week

CityLab’s Most Popular Stories This Week

April 28, 2024

April 28, 2024

CityLab’s Most Popular Stories This Week

CityLab’s Most Popular Stories This Week

April 7, 2024

April 7, 2024

CityLab’s Most Popular Stories This Week

CityLab’s Most Popular Stories This Week

December 7, 2023

December 7, 2023

CityLab Daily: A 1980s Texas Business Hub Looks Beyond Offices

Also today: The plan to put a skyscraper on top of a skyscraper faces backlash, and where US tech investment is growing the most.

The IBM glass office building in the Las Colinas area of Irving, TX

August 27, 2023

August 27, 2023

CityLab: The Week’s Most Popular Stories

CityLab: The Week’s Most Popular Stories

May 16, 2023

May 16, 2023

CityLab Daily: China’s Space Dreams Boost Nationalism, Local Economies

Also today: Eric Adams is starving NYC’s universal pre-k program, and a Belgian lesson in taming the automobile.

CityLab Daily: China’s Space Dreams Boost Nationalism, Local Economies

April 14, 2023

April 14, 2023

CityLab Daily: Covid Did Not Empty Out Big Cities

Also today: New York's budget delayed by bail law proposal, and US school districts are eager to electrify their bus fleets.

CityLab Daily: Covid Did Not Empty Out Big Cities

February 7, 2023

February 7, 2023

CityLab Daily: The Art of Designing a Dangerous-Looking Playground

Also today: The cost of Memphis police killing falls on residents, and baseball fans help save a thousand trees in the heart of Tokyo.

CityLab Daily: The Art of Designing a Dangerous-Looking Playground

January 3, 2023

January 3, 2023

CityLab Daily: Can No-Honking Days Quiet Mumbai’s Cacophony

Also today: Why NYC’s child care centers are closing, and Bangladesh’s capital gets its first mass-transit rail.

CityLab Daily: Can No-Honking Days Quiet Mumbai’s Cacophony

May 20, 2022

May 20, 2022

CityLab Daily: Pandemic Cash Payments Were a Game Changer

Also today: The costs of criminalizing homelessness, and how a traffic camera became London’s top money maker.

CityLab Daily: Pandemic Cash Payments Were a Game Changer

May 2, 2022

May 2, 2022

CityLab Daily: New D.C. Public Schools Set Net-Zero Model

Also today: It’s time for live cosplay ‘Bridgerton,’ and Hong Kong’s Star Ferry needs a rescue plan with no tourists in ight.

CityLab Daily: New D.C. Public Schools Set Net-Zero Model

October 26, 2021

October 26, 2021

CityLab Daily: The History of Why People Shoplift

Also today: A novel pilot brings vertical farms to public housing, and top business cities are still failing working women.

Walgreens

October 17, 2021

October 17, 2021

The Week’s Most Popular Stories

The Week’s Most Popular Stories

September 30, 2021

September 30, 2021

CityLab Daily: Adding Up the Hidden Costs of Ride-Hailing

Also today: An interview with the world’s first chief heat officer, and is Korea’s smart city Songdo a model for the urban future?

Social Distancing Shows Signs Of Curbing Virus On West Coast