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Reuters The country's almost laboratory-like conditions are a perfect place to measure the effect of human urban development on temperature.
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Videos
Is This the World's Oldest Dash Cam Video?
Incredible footage from the 1920s shows New York's traffic has always been a problem (especially when you're rushing to put out a fire).
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Minimum Wage of the Day: San Francisco Reclaims #1, at $10.55 Per Hour
San Francisco is once again the best city in America to flip burgers.
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Despite Sandy, Plans for Huge Staten Island Ferris Wheel Roll Forward
Weighing jobs vs. climate change in New York's hardest hit borough.
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Charts
Redefining Inequality So It Actually Means Something
Measures that don't account for location fail to capture purchasing power differences.
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Year in Review
The Best #CityReads of 2012
Charter cities, sexy villages, company towns, and more.
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The Death of the American Shopping Mall
Stores don't need nearly as much retail space as they used to, and this is seriously hurting the country's real estate market.
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The Business Case for Saying No to National Chains
Brooklyn's Barclays Center is proving itself a leader in fostering a strong hometown identity.
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How UPS Delivers Many, Many More Packages Than FedEx
The shipping company will make 28 million drop-offs today -- 324 a second.
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How Economic Development Is Changing the Geography of Urban Crime
As inner cores become wealthier, crime will get pushed out of many cities.
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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.
