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Year in Review
2012's Year in Maps
It's been an eventful year for cartography.
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Year in Review
The Most Talked About Buildings of 2012
From residences to gardens to installations, a look at the most compelling works of the year.
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Charts
This Most Recent Decline in U.S. Violent Crime Is Different From the Last One
Homicide rates have fallen significantly in some places. Does economic development deserve the credit?
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Year in Review
The 10 Healthiest U.S. Housing Markets Going in to 2013
Metros with strong job growth, low vacancy rates and low foreclosure inventory.
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Maps
The Surprising Metros That Bounced Back From the Recession First
So far there are only three of them in the U.S. The rest of us are still working on it.
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Maps
To Get America Growing Again, We Have to Look to Our Most Productive Metro Areas
The United States is not just as a single national economy but a collection of city and metro economies, and they're growing at starkly different rates.
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Romney's Murky Urban Agenda
As Massachusetts governor, Romney was a believer in smart growth, climate change and mass transit. But the same man may not enter the White House, if he wins.
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What's the True Cost of Incorporation?
Texas master-planned community The Woodlands still isn't interested in becoming a city, and they have a strong case.
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Videos
The Right Way to Turn Art Into Economic Development
Project Row Houses transforms Depression-era homes into a community art museum and affordable housing.
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Charts
The Tragic Geography of Disconnected Youth
One in seven young Americans are neither working nor going to school.
