- NEW: Cleveland sees development boom on Euclid corridor.
- NEW: What American cities can learn from Barcelona.
- More about the myth that roads and freeways "pay for themselves.
- A cautionary tale about economic development, mergers and lack of corporate loyalty to place.
- Fiscal wreck stymies Denver's visionary rail plans.
- First government subsidized sprawl, now it's subsidizing the deterioration of sprawl.
- Bloomberg's big-development vision for NYC stalled.
- Is your suburb the next slum?
- Detroit -- the death, and possible life, of a great American city.
- How Pittsburgh bounced back. Renewal is a long process.
- Key reasons for Portland's success. Most of all it's comfortable with being urban.
- The green case for cities: If you want to save energy, leave the suburbs.
- Hilarious and accurate send-up of Samuelson's anti-rail rant in Newsweek.
- Cities to learn from in the creative economy (Phoenix need not apply).
- Fast trains to the airport prove popular and cost-effective.
- A tour through the ghastly auto-centric sprawl-opolis that Wal-Mart built.
- Transportation stimulus gives short shrift to metros that produce most of America's GDP, hold most of its people.
- Retailers head for the exits in Detroit (a city with no national grocery chains).
- Improved rail lines spur urban revival.
- Civic crime: The abandonment and likely demolition of Detroit's priceless Michigan Central Station.
- Is Denver in danger of screwing up Union Station project?
- Richard Florida on the rise of anti-urbanism.
- Youth magnet cities hit midlife crisis -- but hipsters keep coming.
- Germany imagines suburbs without cars.
- Toronto gets sleek new streetcars.
- Chicago unveils ambitious downtown plan.
- Walkability grows as a real-estate plus.
- Dubai: How not to build a city.
- Inside Obama's urban policy.
- Reinventing America's cities: The time is now.
- Fifteen Chinese cities are building subways.
- Bus rapid-transit done right.
- Texas county will build commuter rail line to Dallas.
- As projects grind to a halt, subdivisions turn into wastelands.
- Portland's creative economy helps cushion city from crash.
- California areas hostile to development and 'growth,' enjoy least of recession's pain.
- Richard Florida: How the crash will reshape America (Good for real cities. Sorry, Sun Belt).
- Time flies and drinks flow on Germany's high-speed rail.
- With sprawl and little transit, Boise faces rising smog problem.
- Road worriers: Can New Urbanists seize the moment?
- Pittsburgh develops prosperous life after steel.
- Ambitious subway network changing Beijing.
- Let's 'bail-in' GM and let it rebuild the streetcar systems it conspired to destroy.
- Thanks to transit, New York grew but traffic didn't.
- Being green proves good business for Portland.
- Seattle Council approves large streetcar expansion.
- Urban loneliness largely a myth.
- Mass transit projects fared well at the polls.
- Korean firm bets big on ambitious downtown LA project.
- Pyramid fails to lift Memphis' blues.
- Downtowns across U.S. see streetcars as essential part of multi-modal mass transit system
- Trading places: Affluent move to city centers, as poor move to suburbia.
- Cities in "road warrior" South and West embracing light-rail systems.
- Charlotte sees upswing in center city near light-rail line, while many suburbs decline.
- Urban living kinder to the planet than suburban lifestyle.
- Light rail success in Dallas brings major expansion.
- Across U.S., communities rethinking how they grow, embracing density.
- Oklahoma City's downtown revival includes river for sports.
- An ambitious plan for center city in Las Vegas (yes, Las Vegas).
- House prices fall most in areas with long commute.
- Shanghai's building huge new subway system.
- Steps to speed up train service in the U.S.
- The coming slums of exurbia.
- While U.S. rail languishes, train in Spain to beat plane.
- Read Jon's columns on cities and urban issues.
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