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CHART: Housing Growth in U.S. Cities, 2000-2010, From Detroit to Miami
Cities like Miami, Seattle and Denver have showed that density and healthy housing stock growth are not incompatible goals.
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Resilient Cities
Durban’s Car Guards Get Corporate
By Greg Arde
Durban’s informal car guards face a push for formalization.
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The Works
Six Things to Know About the Nation’s Much-Heralded Transit Growth
By Stephen J. Smith
Buses are in decline as rail ridership rises, Metrorail in Miami is growing like crazy, and Pennsylvania’s Keystone Corridor upgrades…
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Shared City
GAO: Government Dollars Close Broadband’s Urban-Nonurban Speed Gap
By Nancy Scola
A report from congressional researchers looks at where the Internet is fast and cheap(er).
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The Works
Op-Ed: A Freeway-Divided Neighborhood Fights for Better Transit Connections
By Dominique Navarro
Residents of City Heights, San Diego were promised better transit connections back in the 1980s.
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Shared City
Step 1: Taxi Apps Step 2: ? Step 3: The End of Communist China
By Nancy Scola
Some see political repercussions in the battle between Internet giants Alibaba and Tencent.
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Resilient Cities
How a Dutch Inner-City School Used Judo and Gardening to Improve Test Scores
By Rachel Keeton
By bucking the trend of focusing solely on math and languages, teachers got students engaged.
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The Works
New Starts: Rail for Melbourne, Left Turns for San Francisco
By Stephen J. Smith
Plus, one of Japan’s largest private railways builds the country’s tallest skyscraper.
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The Works
CHART: Housing Growth in U.S. Cities, 2000-2010, From Detroit to Miami
By Stephen J. Smith
Cities like Miami, Seattle and Denver have showed that density and healthy housing stock growth are not incompatible goals.
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Shared City
The Boston Guide to Design-Driven and Research-Honed Civic Innovation
By Nancy Scola
Government officials and academics in the Hub have teamed up to build better city tech.
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