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Maps
A Puzzling Relationship Between Same-Sex Parents and Gay Marriage?
Many of the highest percentages of gay couples raising children are found in states that ban gay marriage.
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Photos
A Visual History of Michigan's Outsize Influence on American Modernism
The state that helped bring design to the masses reflects on its legacy with an upcoming symposium and exhibit.
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Charts
How Congress Can Help Rust Belt Cities Attract (and Keep) High-Skill Immigrants
Shrinking cities are hoping immigrants will rebuild our their communities. Washington should gear policy to helping them.
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Does Michigan's Emergency-Manager Law Hurt Black Citizens Disproportionately?
"It totally decimates democracy."
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Why Segregation Is Bad for Everyone
Even wealthy people in the suburbs.
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Maps
The Case for (Selective) Squatting
Sometimes, it can be in a city's best interest to encourage the people who do it.
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Urban Wonk
The Problem With Calling Cities 'Post-Industrial'
It's time to come up with a new way of thinking and talking about places like Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland.
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Maps
Class-Divided Cities: Detroit Edition
The final installment of our series exploring the economic divides across America's largest cities and metros.
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The Big Fix
After the School Closings, the Real Estate Mess
As school districts downsize, they leave behind shuttered buildings. Finding new uses for them can be difficult, to say the least.
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Symbols Worth Saving: The Best #CityReads of the Week
Our weekly roundup of the most intriguing articles about cities and urbanism we've come across in the past seven days.
