Urban Policy & Infrastructure
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Postdisaster Housing Policy: Lessons from Katrina
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How can we best support low-income survivors after natural disasters?
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Has the Green Metropolis Sprouted?
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The New Yorker scribe details the environmental perks of cities—and why we have a long way to go to escape our manifest destiny of sprawl.
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Most Unequal, More Separate: How Income Segregation Skyrocketed In U.S. Cities
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A pair of researchers explain why our cities have been pulled apart and how we can mend them back together.
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Ushering In the Creative Age
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Alan Freeman writes that the age of creation lies before us—if we can rediscover the lost art of investing in humans.
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Spacing Out: Geographic Boundary Setting by Drug Treatment Courts
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Should drug treatment courts subscribe to that age-old adage “out of sight, out of mind”?
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The Windy City Path: Funding the Future of Transit In Chicago
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A transportation analyst sums up how far the city has come on restructuring its transit infrastructure—and how far it has yet to go.
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Pulling the Purse Strings: Choice and Competition in Public Schools
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Urban school districts spend to compete.
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Cities Insecure: Urban Poor in Times of Rising Food Prices
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The pricey downside of life in the city.