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Maps
Which Small Businesses Get a Bump From the Super Bowl?
Heat maps from Square highlight how concentrated the benefits from the big game really are.
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Sometimes Stuff Just Breaks
Would people be reacting the same way to the Super Bowl power outage if it had happened in any other city?
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Lost Frontiers and Foolish Funding: 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.
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What Super Bowl Fans Can Expect From the Revamped Superdome
$185 million in renovations buys you a pretty snazzy facility.
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Year in Review
The Best Open Data Releases of 2012
Our annual look at the extensive information now available from city governments, and the tools people are building with it.
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The Sad and Telling Reaction of School Districts Everywhere to Sandy Hook
Monday brings an awkward mix of grief and preparation.
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New Identity of the Day: The New Orleans Hornets Become the Pelicans
Let's go Pels!
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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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How One Homeless Teenage Mother Broke the Cycle of Poverty
For a young single parent with no place to live, it can be nearly impossible to get off the streets, let alone go to college. Here's how one woman did both.
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Charts
How Hurricanes Impact Unemployment, in One Chart
The jump in jobless claims this week looks an awful lot like the one post-Katrina.
