Social / Demographics

Will the frenzy of New Orleans' 'defiantly idiosyncratic character' be replaced by a few tame, touristy neighborhoods like the 'Disneyfied Vieux Carre'?

February 22, 2006 - U.S. News & World Report

'The Boys of Baraka' chronicles the lives of four at-risk boys as they travel from their crime-infested neighborhood to a special school in Kenya.

February 22, 2006 - San Francisco Weekly

East Coast cities from Boston to Washington plan to sue out-of-state gun dealers in an effort to cut the influx of guns --used in 85 percent of city crimes -- that are bought legally in other states.

February 21, 2006 - The Christian Science Monitor

The New York Times focuses on the New York metro area; the region will seek federal legislation to assist these declining suburban communities.

February 17, 2006 - The New York Times

Residents of mobile home parks being bulldozed to make way for new homes and apartments find they have no place to go.

February 15, 2006 - The Los Angeles Times

Despite a number of technology awards, only about half of the city's adults have internet access, and even fewer have broadband connections.

February 15, 2006 - Ohio Free Times

Pittsburgh lives and dies with the Steelers. Good thing they won.

February 12, 2006 - International Herald Tribune

National Geographic explores the disconcerting spread of Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, a relatively new and violent Los Angeles-based gang.

February 10, 2006 - The Christian Science Monitor

Alan Berube of the Brookings Institution examines how receipt of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) expanded nationwide from 2000 to 2003 in response to a weakened economy.

February 10, 2006 - The Brookings Institution

The New Urbanism movement has sparked a revival of what author John Buchino calls America's 'favorite pastime.'

February 9, 2006 - The Arizona Republic

A new book examines how racial segregation and urban sprawl perpetuate cycles of poverty.

February 8, 2006 - National Trust Preservation Magazine

Dr. Neal Kaufman explains how the design of everyday places -- including schools -- can have profound impacts on public health. The best schools, he says, are located in the center of neighborhoods, where kids and parents can walk and play together.

February 8, 2006 - New Schools, Better Neighborhoods

Dallas becomes the largest metro area in the U.S. to adopt the 'verified response' to business burglar alarms, meaning that local police will not respond unless business security guards tell them to.

February 3, 2006 - The Dallas Observer

From pawnshops to check cashers and rent-to-own stores, usurious companies are exploiting the nation's poor, creating a lucrative 'fringe economy' in the process.

January 31, 2006 - Houston Press

Joel Kotkin and William Frey observe how the movement of high-skilled and professional jobs to rapidly growing inland California is changing the region where the "California Dream" is still possible.

January 30, 2006 - The Los Angeles Times

How Chinese New Year in Vancouver symbolizes the emergence of a new, unique civic culture.

January 30, 2006 - Maisonneuve

Latino new urbanism is quickly gaining popularity in California and Texas, the nation's two most populous states and the ones with the largest numbers of Hispanics.

January 29, 2006 - USA Today

As student enrollment spikes in the UK, university cities are scrambling to find new and better ways of planning for the up and downsides of waves of students moving into near-campus areas.

January 27, 2006 - The Guardian

Despite a drop in Men's Fitness magazine's standings, Portlanders have their chin up about exercise.

January 25, 2006 - Willamette Week

An interview with the author of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse on topics from water resources to long-range planning and the U.S.'s isolationism.

January 25, 2006 - Albuquerque Weekly Alibi