About The Good City

The Good City is an independent publication, podcast and community dedicated to thoughtful storytelling, meaningful conversations and shared experiences.

A note on The Good City

We’re launching something new — and we’re genuinely excited about it.

For years, we’ve been making books at Raintree Media — the kind that take time, get the details right, and last. We still love that work, and we’re not stopping.

But a lot of the most interesting stuff happening in our cities right now doesn’t wait for a book. It’s happening in real time — new ideas, new people, new ways of living and working. We wanted in on that conversation.

So we built The Good City.

We like the speed of digital — being able to publish something the moment it matters. But we also got tired of the endless scroll of quick takes that say nothing. We wanted both: immediacy and depth. Stories that are timely, but also worth sitting with.

That’s what The Good City is. Features with narrative, real conversations, ideas worth your time — by the people shaping our cities.

And because good ideas deserve more than a comments section, we’ll be running events too — bringing people together to talk, debate, and actually do something about the ideas we’re discussing.

This is day one. Glad to have you with us.

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