Topic: Suburbs
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Gentrification of the Strip Mall
These declining suburban outposts are hotbeds for immigrant entrepreneurs. How should we protect those businesses as strip malls evolve?
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Could Istanbul's Protesters Halt Turkey's Controversial Canal Project?
Officials say the canal will fuel the country's economy. But opponents worry it will add to runaway sprawl and rampant water pollution.
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Charts
The Suburbanization of Poverty
Public perception has yet to catch up to the reality that the poor now live in the suburbs, too.
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A Transit Expansion Designed to Force Paris to Make Peace With Its Suburbs
If any European city needed a radical structural rethink, it's Paris.
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Maps
Where It Takes the Longest to Get To Work
New Census data on commute times suggests not much has changed in the last ten years.
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An Urban-Suburban Compromise to Revitalize a Buffalo Neighborhood
Larkinville, Buffalo's most successful urban development initiative in decades, merges city hip with suburban convenience.
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The Islamic Urbanist Tradition Is in Danger of Going Extinct
"Mosques are being built in suburban communities only accessible by car."
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In Defense of 'Mansionization'
Let's stop fighting developers who are trying to make your neighborhoods more desirable.
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Does Human Capital Tend to Cluster in Center Cities or the Suburbs?
According to new research, where college-educated folks live has a lot to do with population size.
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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.
