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Detroit voters have an opportunity to pick a mayor who will...

Brian J. Connolly, University of Michigan Five of the nine candidates in Detroit’s mayoral contest debated on May 29,...

Traditional downtowns are dead or dying in many US cities −...

John Rennie Short, University of Maryland, Baltimore County The hollowing out of U.S. cities’ office and commercial cores is...

Why the humble city bus is the key to improving US...

Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Hunter College Public transit in the U.S. is in a sorry state – aging, underfunded and...

City planners are questioning the point of parking garages

Kevin J. Krizek, University of Colorado Boulder and John Hersey, University of Colorado Boulder For the past century, the...

City planners are questioning the point of parking garages

Kevin J. Krizek, University of Colorado Boulder and John Hersey, University of Colorado Boulder For the past century, the...

How food became the perfect beachhead for gentrification

Pascale Joassart-Marcelli, San Diego State University Everybody, it seems, welcomes the arrival of new restaurants, cafés, food trucks and...

A new solution for America’s empty churches: A change of faith

Ashima Krishna, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Over the past few decades, vacant and underutilized churches have become a familiar sight...

What lies beneath: To manage toxic contamination in cities, study their...

James R. Elliott, Rice University and Scott Frickel, Brown University Philadelphia’s hip Northern Liberties community is an old working-class neighborhood that has become a model...

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