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Urban Wonk
Why We Should Stop Talking About 'Bus Stigma'
Obsessing over trying to serve different economic classes on mass transit misses the point.
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San Francisco to L.A. in 30 Minutes? Sure, on the Hyperloop
Elon Musk imagines a cheap, faster-than-a-plane, weather-immune, crash-impervious people-mover.
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Rankings
Large U.S. Cities and Tolerance
How America's biggest metro areas stack up.
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The Radical Rise of Asian Soul Food
City streets are bursting with a gutsy, high-low mash up of street food and haute cuisine, old country flavors and new-fangled cooking techniques.
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What Might Gas Stations Look Like When Hardly Anyone Uses Gas?
Some whimsical responses to a serious question.
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Democracy in America
This Week in Bans: Massachusetts Whiner Gets American Flags Removed
Also, a tony California beach town shoos away smelly persons from its libraries, and the Olympics outlaws everything.
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An L.A. Artist Makes Immigrant Workers Impossible to Ignore
Ramiro Gomez plants cardboard cutouts of domestic service employees in wealthy neighborhoods.
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Charts
How Your City May Have Affected Your Raise
Wage growth varies considerably by metropolitan area, according to numbers from the most recent quarter.
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The Big Fix
Race, Class, and the Stigma of Riding the Bus in America
Can a city successfully gentrify its bus system? Does it want to?
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Of Course People Will Ride California HSR
What they may stop riding are commercial airlines, research suggests.
