From Sustainable Cities Collective: Some American cities, though different in shape, size, and culture, share traits that make them great places to live, work, and play. In my four years at Ball State University, I was fortunate...
Read MoreFrom Next City: If you are looking for the true source of democracy in a society — if you are looking for the places where equity flourishes — you will find it in the public spaces of cities. It is there, in the streets and...
Read MoreFrom Daily Beast: When Detroit filed for bankruptcy last week, it was the largest city to go belly up in U.S. history. But it was also a false flag of despair. Municipal bankruptcy is rare; Governing estimates that 0.06 percent...
Read MoreFrom CEOs for Cities: Historic Preservation and the Identity of a City Photo from flick user JasonParis Every city has its own unique identity. This identity is embodied in its citizens and also its buildings. For example,...
Read MoreFrom citiwire.net: The field of city planning emerged in U.S. at the dawn of the 20th century and helped shape a rapidly urbanizing nation. Between 1900 and 2000, the nation’s population grew by 205 million, and its land...
Read MoreFrom Atlantic Cities: Transit and highway authorities often view one another as competitors in the race for urban transport dollars, what with transportation funding increasingly harder to come by, but in metropolitan Tampa...
Read MoreFrom Atlantic Cities: When Mark Aesch became head of the Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority, back in 2004, the metro area’s bus system was in terrible shape. The agency carried a $4.5 million deficit and...
Read MoreFrom Bonddad blog: Some Ugly Economic Charts For Detroit Last week’s Detroit bankruptcy got me thinking about what the economy for that city looks like. Thankfully, the FRED data system has some very interesting data...
Read MoreFrom Better Institutions: There seems to be an uptick in freeway news lately, so I put together a highway edition of my semi-daily news roundup last week, including the updates on the apparent death of the Columbia River...
Read MoreWhatever you want to call people living alone — some go with solos, others singletons — the fact is there’s a lot more of them than there used to be. In 1950, solos accounted for about 9 percent of all U.S. households;...
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