From Next City: Ten years ago, I was living in Oberlin, a college town 30 miles from Cleveland. I was newly divorced, and ready to start dating, but not anyone in my small, company town. So I met Cleveland men. And by meeting...
Read MoreFrom Urbanophile: Nashville has been on a roll in recent years, with a rapidly growing population (including a rapidly expanding immigrant base), robust job growth (#1 among large cities in 2012 on a percentage basis), and lots...
Read MoreFrom The Dirt: A bit more than 10 years ago, Ryan Gravel, a Georgia Tech architecture and urban planning master’s student, delivered a whopper of a thesis. His vision was to transform the mostly abandoned railroad lines that...
Read MoreFrom Atlantic Cities: For a long time, you could divide the library patrons of San Antonio, Texas, into two categories — the haves and the have nots. Inside the city limits, there was a robust library system with 26...
Read MoreFrom Citiwire.net: By Sam Newberg Tactical urbanism is blossoming in the United States, bringing the opportunity to change how we look at our neighborhoods and cities, and most important, how we improve them. In early June, on a...
Read MoreTeachers are optimistic that new evaluation tools are improving teaching and learning A new report from Teach Plus reveals Memphis teachers’ views on the impact of evaluation reform and suggests positive trend to come ...
Read MoreFrom Next City: The following is an edited excerpt from the upcoming book The Metropolitan Revolution by Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley. Brookings Institution Press will release the book on June 17. When economic sociologist...
Read MoreFrom The Atlantic: By Ta-Nehisi Coates I’ve spent the last couple of months looking at the roots of white supremacists’ policy, and the limits of color-blind policy in addressing its damage. A few weeks back, while...
Read MoreFrom The BIG Slice: It is time to blow the whistle on newspaper editors who claim that they rid themselves of their editorial cartoonist for ‘budgetary’ reasons. It is a dishonest, disingenuous, and duplicitous assault on the...
Read MoreFrom Sustainable Cities Collective by Jim Russell: Attract talent or die. That’s the one imperative of the zero-sum Creative Class game. Another run at Cool Cities in Michigan: David Egner, president of the Hudson-Webber...
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