Topic: economic development
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Photos
El Paso Ushers in Its Downtown Renewal With a 'Demolition Weekend'
The Texas city gets started on a broad downtown improvement plan in dramatic fashion.
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Could Kickstarter Work as a Tool for Neighborhood Economic Development?
The city of Chicago tries to leverage the platform better known for funding design projects and cutting-edge products.
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Maps
Booming Asian Cities Are Tugging The World's Center of Light East
The light of urban development seen from space can tell us much about the shape of the world's economy.
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Ideas Trump Resources When it Comes to City Growth
Natural resources can help, but enduring economic growth is powered by talent and ideas.
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'My Brooklyn' Tells a Story of Gentrification and Loss
The documentary takes aim at developers and city officials who smilingly insist that "change is good."
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Regardless How They're Counted, Incentives Do Nothing for Economic Development
A follow-up on our analysis of The New York Times series on state and local incentives to business.
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Videos
The Right Way to Turn Art Into Economic Development
Project Row Houses transforms Depression-era homes into a community art museum and affordable housing.
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Why Eds and Meds Alone Can't Revitalize Cities
Beyond any impending bubble in education and health care spending, these two sectors are not a source of economic development in the first place.
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Radiating Death: How Walmart Displaces Nearby Small Businesses
The closer they are, the more they fall.
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If You Want Walkable Development, You Must Show That It Pays
The complex math behind the connection between walkability and the economic bottom line.
