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Urban leaders like to complain that suburbs are a drain on their prosperity. The facts are otherwise. → Read More
We need to move toward a lower-energy future, but we can’t present it as a punishment. → Read More
The Windy City's core problem is that it struggles to lure top talent away from coastal superstar cities. → Read More
America’s third-largest city has a plenitude of problems. But it has great advantages as well. → Read More
Ohio’s largest city has never attracted much national attention, but that is beginning to change. → Read More
A new biography of Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. reminds us of a bygone model of the public servant. → Read More
The route to trust in our institutions is through candor, competence and a clear sense of mission. Two examples, from Indiana and West Virginia, show how trust can be rebuilt one careful step at a time. → Read More
Urban and suburban America need each other more than ever. The coronavirus is making their relationship difficult as remote work changes the status quo and increases the competition for talent. → Read More
The death of Tony Hsieh is the loss of an urban pioneer. → Read More
While it's helped a lot of Americans who are displaced from their offices get their work done, it's fallen short in areas like education and disease tracking and has once again highlighted the digital divide. → Read More
As the "smart city" movement has progressed through three distinct waves, local governments have found themselves increasingly struggling to manage the changes that alter many aspects of urban life. → Read More
Several Midwest cities are pursuing innovative mass-transit plans—with encouraging results. → Read More
New York needs to think like a growth city again. → Read More
Once a major American city, the Gateway to the West struggles to redefine itself. → Read More
Fifteen years ago Philadelphia was yet another Rust Belt city wrestling with decline. Today, as the Pew Charitable Trust’s latest State of the City report has shown, the city is on an upward trajectory, adding population in recent years for the first time since 1950, and adding jobs too.... → Read More
A reformist outsider disrupts politics in the Windy City. → Read More
A Manhattan Institute report offers strategies to revitalize such struggling cities as Johnstown, Pennsylvania; Pittsfield, Massachusetts; and Youngstown, Ohio. → Read More
Chicago is a fiscal wreck, and none of the 13 candidates for mayor have a serious plan to fix it. → Read More
From Instagram stunts to Edison bulbs, why do so many cities’ marketing plans try to convince people that they’re exactly like somewhere else? It’s curious that while every company tries its hardest to convince you of how much different and better it is than every other company in its... → Read More
Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s longshot presidential candidacy highlights the challenge of being a talented Democrat from Indiana. → Read More