The Big Fix
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The Big Fix
Is Free Rent Enough to Jumpstart a Sleepy Commercial District?
Birmingham finds success with an innovative program to rejuvenate a neighborhood.
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The Big Fix
The Developing World's Most Innovative City for Trash Management Is ... Bangalore?
The Indian city is setting itself up as a model for how struggling cities can better handle waste disposal.
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Radio, Not the Internet, Might Be The Future of Local News
For the first time, neighborhoods will be able to bid on local radio wavelengths. Here's what that means for cities.
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Is Broadband for All Even Possible?
The District of Columbia is trying to bring high-speed internet to more of its residents. But it's much more complicated than anyone imagined.
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Fortress America: How the U.S. Designs its Embassies
The challenge of architecture that epitomizes American values while offering total security.
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New York State's Curious, Century-Old Law Requiring Every City and Town to Have a Historian
Is this still a good idea?
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Berlin's Invisible Gentrifiers
The city's properties are being sucked up by out-of-towners who visit only a few weeks a year, turning neighborhoods into ghost towns.
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Can D.C. Lead the Way to a 21st Century Waterfront?
In Washington, designers are planning a revamp that returns the city to the water's edge.
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'We Buy Houses': Decline and Opportunity in Pittsburgh's East Suburbs
Penn Hills, Pennsylvania's foreclosure woes have left it in deep trouble. At least two entrepreneurs are cashing in.
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Why Have So Many Cities and Towns Given Away So Much Money to Bass Pro Shops and Cabela's?
The astonishing story of how the nation's two largest hunting and fishing specialty stores convinced small town America to pay for their expansions.
