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A 'Vertical' Future for the Urban Factory
A traveling exhibition imagines a minor renaissance of urban manufacturing that's greener, cleaner, and more efficient.
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How to Fix the Juvenile Justice System
City kids are disproportionately jailed in facilities that don't meet their needs. Here's what can be done.
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Videos
Remember the Automat
Once a staple of the Manhattan lunch scene, the automat sees new life as a replica for an exhibit about lunch.
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Freeway Removal Hits a Roadblock in the Bronx
Reports of the death of the Sheridan Expressway have been greatly exaggerated.
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Urban Wonk
The Birth of Zoning Codes, a History
Or, how Americans learned to legislate our NIMBY impulses.
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Charts
Travel Advice of the Day: Head to Las Vegas, or Hanoi
Trip Advisor ranks the cheapest and most expensive vacation cities for Americans this summer.
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Urban Wonk
How the Recession Made Me a Gentrifier in My Home Town
Downwardly mobile Millennials—especially the ones who are natives of increasingly expensive cities—are rewriting the rules of gentrification.
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Can Bloomberg's $9 Million Mayors Challenge Really Make a Difference?
At least one massively successful city innovation, 311, suggests it can.
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Woohoo! NYC's Downtown Now Boasts a Zip Line
New Yorkers can fly through the air as part of the city's summer celebration of livable streets.
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Bloomberg Offers $5 Million Prize for City Innovation
The "Mayors Challenge" will award "breakthrough solutions" to urban problems.
