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How Starbucks May Help Save South Central
Corporate retailers and the American ghetto: a successful combination?
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Metropolis From Scratch
In South Korea, construction teams are at work on an entirely new city for international business that is expected to have half a million residents within 5 years.
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Does San Francisco Have Room For Industry?
With skyrocketing residential prices and continuing gentrification, are San Francisco's industrial areas (and their jobs) fated to disappear?
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Joel Kotkin On 5 Millennia Of Cities
Excerpt from a new book by a leading thinker about cities.
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Yes, It Is About The Artists: The Tacoma Story
How both art and artists helped one city rebuild.
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Cincinnati Discovers Cosmopolitan
After decades of decay, Cincinnati is on the mend.
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The Rise Of 'Modernist' New Urbanism In Miami
A new development in Miami successfully combines Modernist architecture with New Urbanism.
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Is East Atlanta Losing Its Soul?
An inner city Atlanta neighborhood struggles with gentrification.
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Can Chicago Capture The New Economy The Old Fashioned Way?
Chicago is one of the world's most wired cities? Will technology define Chicago's future as a fiber optic hub instead of a transit hub?
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How SimCity Transformed Urban Planning
Could the computer game SimCity have changed the very idea of urban planning?
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Are Mobile Homes The Future Of Affordable Housing?
Amidst stigma and displacement, mobile homes offer new hope for affordable housing emerges.
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In Defense of the 'Creative Class'
Author Richard Florida responds to criticisms of "The Rise of the Creative Class."
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A New Urban Benchmark: Amenity Dollars (AA$)
AA$ measures the financial ability of a city's citizens to increase their education, start new businesses, and support urban amenities.
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Why Tempe Is Demolishing Its Sole Historic Neighborhood
Can Tempe afford -- or afford not to -- keep its oldest houses?
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The Race For Residents: D.C. And Baltimore Go Head To Head
Why Washington D.C. and Baltimore are aggressively competing for the same pool of young urban professionals, and who's winning.
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Reclaiming The Grid: Portland's City Repair
Since 1996, Portland's City Repair has been transforming the nature of public space and the dialogue that surrounds it.
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Why The Lubavitcher Jews Still Live In Crown Heights
On Kingston Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, African-style hairdressers sit next to kosher butcher shops.
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How 'Conservative Creatives' Transformed Chattanooga
How a city ranked 139th out of 268 regions in Richard Floridas Creativity Index became one of the country's most successful places.
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