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A new commentary by Robert Puentes blasts the nation's transportation system and policy as dysfunctional.

A striking new degree of racial and ethnic mixing occurred in the nation's major metropolitan areas during the 1990s, according to a new analysis of neighborhood-level census data.

The Calculus of Coalitions: Cities and States and the Metropolitan Agenda

The Brookings Institution releases a report that examines the location and neighborhood trends of low income housing tax credit developments.

A speech by Bruce Katz of the Brookings institute presents the major trends affecting cities and metropolitan areas, the forces driving these trends, and the policy solutions available to affect positive change.

What does the government spend on children? Here is the evidence from Five Cities.

Compact development and reinvestment in urban centers can save taxpayers money and improve regional economies. In this paper, Mark Muro and Robert Puentes review the best academic evidence on the fiscal and competitive advantages.

Unparalleled immigration in the 1980s and 1990s transformed many older immigrant gateways and created new ones. In this paper, Audrey Singer analyzes the new geography of American immigration .

Traffic congestion is an inescapable condition in nearly all large and growing metropolitan areas throughout the world.

Low-income working families live in large cities and rural areas in nearly equal numbers, IRS data show.

The proper management of traffic congestion is the only solution to our basic mobility problems.

Transition and Renewal: The Emergence of a Diverse Upstate Economy

A new analysis of the location and migration patterns of younger and older workers, especially those with college degrees, counters some commonly held notions about "brain drain" and examines policies to address the impacts of these locat

The relationship between new housing construction and household growth is a fundamental factor in understanding why some central cities lose population and others suffer from a tight housing market.

Despite a number of reforms in the past decade, federal rules remain stacked against transit, and funding highway projects is far easier, this study shows.

The way a state or region grows physically affects how it grows economically and fiscally.

New "one-stop" guides to key indicators and comparative rankings from Census 2000 are now available for 23 of the nation's largest cities in the Living Cities network.

The Earned Income Tax Credit could improve housing affordability more effectively than federal housing programs.

A daunting set of transportation challenges threaten to undermine metropolitan areas' competitive edge in the global economy.

A new analysis shows that despite two decades of anemic population growth, Upstate New York has urbanized hundreds of thousands of acres of farm and forest land since 1980.