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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.
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Maps
The Real Reason Cities Lean Democratic
How politics are inseparable from density, and what this means for Republicans.
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Maps
Do We Pay More To Live in Diverse Neighborhoods?
Diverse neighborhoods had higher population growth and stronger property value growth last year – and they’re a bit pricier to begin with.
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Urban Wonk
Meet the Man Who 'Repairs the Fabric of Communities'
This developer has done more than almost anyone else to promote green affordable housing.
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Eerie Timelapse of the Day: Washington, D.C., Without the People
It's Election Day! Freak out!
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Democracy in America
The Skyrocketing Costs of Running for Mayor of a Major U.S. City
While the 2012 presidential election will likely be the most expensive in history, a similar money-race is happening on the local level.
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SNAFU of the Day: D.C. Metro Forgets to Turn the Clocks, Strands Revelers
Whoops!
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Romney's Murky Urban Agenda
As Massachusetts governor, Romney was a believer in smart growth, climate change and mass transit. But the same man may not enter the White House, if he wins.
