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Charts
Why Do We Tax Car-Sharing Like It's Liquor or Cigarettes?
Taxes on quick car-share trips run as high as 60 percent.
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Rankings
America's Most Powerful Global Cities
Sizing up the global clout of U.S. cities.
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The Uncertain Legacy of America's Pedestrian Malls
A look at some of America's most (and least) successful designs.
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Urban Wonk
What Developers Get Wrong About Smart Growth
Cities need higher densities, but they also need green space.
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Charts
Where the Global 1% Live Now
The most important cities for the ultra-rich, and what it might cost those places.
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An Ice Cream Truck for Architecture Dorks
The Coolhaus truck serves up scoops with a modernist twist.
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The Curious Case of the 'Imposturbs'
Themed real estate developments have spread urban mimicry all over the world. But why do we want these places?
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Is the Retro Ballpark Movement Officially Over?
20 years since Camden Yards opened in Baltimore, a look back on the stadium design that's emerged since.
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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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The Death (and Life?) of Miami's Marine Stadium
The all-concrete stadium has been rotting since the early 1990s. Can it be saved? Should it be?
