Food trucks and street vendors are a reality in America's changing food landscape. Cities have had to adjust on the fly, and quickly, to update city and ... and the Ugly of the current state ...

"It unearths a really ugly reality in that ... about things that should be in America's Finest City, things that people don't even question,” she said. “A street ̶ that goes without saying.

Tucson had the ugliest street in America. To understand the dubious distinction you have to go back to January 2, 1962. Then-mayor Lew Davis first uttered the phrase. "In the city council chambers ...

That same year, 1974, saw the demise of ugly laws in America. The last city to repeal was Chicago. One of the alderman responsible for killing the law, Paul T. Wigoda, denounced it as "cruel and ...

A blind street musician performs in New York City, 1898. While New York never officially enacted an “ugly law,” it drafted one similar to those in other cities across the nation, as part of ...

The city of Lancaster in California spent $11.5 million transforming its ugly five-lane boulevard into 'America's best main street' boosting the local economy by $280 million, according to the ...