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Urban Wonk
Why Community-Based Planning Works Better Than Anything Else
A Boston neighborhood comes together to solve severe disinvestment, illegal dumping, and lot vacancies.
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Skyscrapers of the Mad Men Era
Mysterious, simple, intimidating. These buildings define the 1960s just as much as a certain show.
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Democracy in America
This Week in Bans: Italian Town Outlaws Death
Also, Boston hates moshpits; an Illinois town repeals Prohibition; New York City's teachers should stay far away from Facebook.
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Maps
Mapping How the Seas Will Eat Coastal U.S. Cities
Miami, Boston, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., and other places that could have entire neighborhoods underwater by 2050.
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Behold, the Ultimate Municipal Truck... Of the Future!
What would happen if you took every neat idea in the realm of public works and piled them all onto one city vehicle?
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Crisis of the Day: The Church Foreclosure Boom
A record number of American parishes are being foreclosed upon.
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The Bicycle Light That's a Threat to Thieves
A couple of MIT grads have developed a light that's 1) extremely hard to steal, and 2) shaped like a pistol.
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Zipcar's Cities of the Future
Zipcar ranks U.S. cities on innovation, sustainability, and creativity.
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You Are Where You Wear
The often subtle (and occasionally lucrative) art of expressing city pride, via t-shirt.
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For the Urban Poor, a Downside to Residential Mobility
A new study finds "unintended political consequences" of HUD's program to place poor families in higher-income neighborhoods.
