Denver's Front Range communities are scrapping malls and big box sites to create new downtowns.
"In Englewood and Lakewood, they're building downtowns in the freshly scraped footprints of shopping malls... For a generation in towns like Lakewood, malls and big boxes stood as community meeting places. But once the mall is closed and the retailer off to another box, communities are left with hulking shells.
...To create these urban centers, suburban town councils and investors are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to manufacture them from failed malls and big-box stores of the past - or from nothing at all."
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For decades we have blamed 100-year-old maps for the patterns of spatial racial inequity that persist in American cities today. An esteemed researcher says: we’ve got it all wrong.

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Walmart Announces Nationwide EV Charging Network
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The World’s Longest Light Rail Line is in… Los Angeles?
In a city not known for its public transit, the 48.5-mile A Line is the longest of its kind on the planet.

Quantifying Social Infrastructure
New developments have clear rules for ensuring surrounding roads, water, and sewers can handle new users. Why not do the same for community amenities?

Dallas Code Reform Makes Way for Missing Middle Housing
The Dallas City Council voted to change the city’s building code to allow up to eight residential units in three-story buildings.
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