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What Salamanders Can Teach Us About Urban Evolution
We have built a city up around them, but amphibians and mammals alike have persisted by genetically diversifying.
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Charts
The Uneven Future of Urbanization
The United Nations projects a huge global urban population boom by 2050, but in some places more than others.
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Photos
The Fight to Save Los Angeles's Little Tokyo
The struggle to preserve the neighborhood's unique character in the face of development.
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Maps
America's Most Important Airport Cities
Airports are a central component in urban and regional economic development.
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The De-Bikification of Beijing
Cycling has dropped precipitously in China's capital. Will it ever be popular again?
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The Big Fix
Washington, D.C.'s Tourist Trap
The District of Columbia attracts millions of visitors every year, but they don't often venture far beyond the National Mall.
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What Twitter Means to Detroit
It may only be a small office, but the deal is a high profile win for entrepreneur Dan Gilbert.
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Wild Design of the Day: A Skyscraper Prison to Rehabilitate Jersey City's Convicts
Two University of Pennsylvania students designed this futuristic, arching prison meant to reduce recidivism rates in New Jersey.
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Videos
Life In an Abandoned Packard Plant
Allan Hill has been caring for (and inhabiting) a rundown Detroit factory building.
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RoboCop Statue 'Definitely' Coming to Detroit
Everyone's favorite badge-toting manmachine will absolutely be memorialized in bronze, somewhere in the city.
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