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Year in Review
2012's Most Important Preservation Battles
The gas stations, theaters and monuments saved this year.
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Year in Review
2012's Year in Maps
It's been an eventful year for cartography.
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What's Behind San Francisco's Sudden Building Boom?
Traditionally stingy with new growth, the city appears to be on the cusp of a major construction cycle.
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Union Station
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A Brief History of the Barnes Dance
Cities have largely given up on pedestrian scrambles — but some are bringing them back.
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Charts
This Most Recent Decline in U.S. Violent Crime Is Different From the Last One
Homicide rates have fallen significantly in some places. Does economic development deserve the credit?
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Uber's Plan to Dominate Cabs by Phone Is Starting to Work Again
New York and Washington are easing their restrictions.
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Inauguration Day in D.C. Is Being Planned Like a Giant Board Game
A 40-by-60 foot map is helping organizers plot parade routes, choose muster locations, everything.
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Charts
The Stark Geographic Inequality of the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction
A small number of coastal cities get the bulk of the benefit.
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The Big Fix
Outdoor Smoking Bans: Impossible to Enforce, or Inevitable?
Declaring public space smoke-free is becoming exponentially more common. Enforcing it is not.
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Trade of the Day: The FBI for the Redskins
Border diplomacy.
