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The Big Fix
6 Questions for Defenders of D.C.'s Height Limit
This urban economist would really like to know the answers.
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Why Mayors Should Run the Department of Transportation
Some unsolicited thoughts for the president as he replaces Ray LaHood.
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Amtrak's New App: Does It Actually Make Travel Easier?
You can buy and cancel your ticket with ease, but the railroad needs to upgrade more of its features.
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The Big Fix
Does the Height Act Actually Cost D.C. Billions of Dollars?
The figure that's been cited lately seems a bit misleading.
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Postcard
'This Isn't a Way to Live'
What the latest Israel-Palestine conflict looks like on the ground.
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The Big Fix
The Urbanist Case for Keeping D.C.'s Height Restrictions
It’s bad enough that our suburbs look like everywhere, USA. Let’s not let that happen to our central city.
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The Big Fix
The Real Estate Deal That Could Change the Future of Everything
Two Washington, D.C., developers set out to democratize how commercial buildings are developed, and in the process they've invented an entirely new model of finance.
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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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DC's Massive New Transportation Experiment Starts Tomorrow
High-tech high-occupancy tolls come to the nation's capital. Is this the future of highway infrastructure?
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Dispute of the Day: How Many Rocks Are Thrown at D.C. Buses?
The city says it happens all over the place.
