Debt

Nearly 10 years in the works, a connector between Oakland International Airport and the BART transit system is taking shape.

This piece from Domus goes on a tour of Athens with local architect Andreas Angelidakis, who reflects on the city's lasting and negative impacts from hosting the Olympics.

California's redevelopment agencies have almost as much if not more debt than what they pull in from tax revenues, according to this investigation by The Wall Street Journal.

After nearly collapsing under the pressure of a free-wheeling building boom, Dubai is on the rebound. A new internal accounting effort is trying to explore what went wrong and how to avoid those mistakes in the future.

Municipal debt is on the rise, as state and local borrowing has grown to nearly one-quarter of the U.S. GDP.

The Olympics have ended in Vancouver, but their costs live on.

The economic recession is pushing many municipalities towards declaring bankruptcy.

Banks and financial institutions are making the foreclosure crisis worse, as lobbying efforts seek to block bankruptcy courts from gaining more power to reduce debt, according to this article from Der Spiegel.