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Shutterstock Rather than trying to lure major retailers onto certain sites, the city is creating places Pittsburghers want to go and hoping business will follow.
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Charts
Cyclists and Pedestrians Can End Up Spending More Each Month Than Drivers
They may buy less per visit. But over the course of a month, bikers out-consumed drivers at bars, restaurants and convenience stores.
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Charts
How Our Current Tax System Is Failing Cities
Levying fees on income and property just isn't working anymore. Cities need to be able to charge people who commute in.
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What Made Newark Teachers Agree to Pay Reform?
It's the first city in the country to create a comprehensive merit pay system. Here's how they did it.
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Car Elevators: Not Just for Rich People
Automated parking garages are now popping up on both coasts. Could this save dense cities space?
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Videos
This Could Be the Key to Making Downtowns Greener
This green wall out of the University of Washington could bring plant life to dense urban areas where green space is hard to come by.
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Rankings
How Places Like Columbus, Indiana, Outrank Silicon Valley
These smaller cities shine when it comes to attracting and keeping jobs.
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Maps
Paying Retail Workers a Little Better Can Make a Huge Difference
A Black Friday look at the geography of retail workers' wages.
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The Big Fix
The Real Estate Deal That Could Change the Future of Everything
Two Washington, D.C., developers set out to democratize how commercial buildings are developed, and in the process they've invented an entirely new model of finance.
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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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L.A. Moves Forward With Its Own Immigration Reform
The nation's second-largest city has approved ID cards aimed at helping the otherwise undocumented.
