Urban growth
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Exorbitant Costs and Minimal Benefits: the Impact of Hosting the Olympics
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Every four years, the world tunes in to watch pageantry, competition, and peak athletic performance at the Summer Olympics. Before the COVID-19 crisis, the 32nd Summer Olympiad was scheduled to take place in Tokyo from late July to early August 2020 and was marketed as the “Recovery Olympics” in light…
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The Metropolitan Revolution: A Conversation with Bruce Katz
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Bruce Katz of the Brookings Institution shares his views on cities, metros, and Detroit.
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Focus on Finance: A Metropolis in the Desert
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Neal Young from the City of Phoenix talks about sustainable growth, transportation, solar energy, budgeting, and pensions in the nation’s Sunbelt.
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Alleviating Poverty with Pavement?
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Authors investigate the role infrastructure improvement can play in improving outcomes for the developing world’s urban poor
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Metro Recovery in a Global Economy
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U.S. metros, the nation’s exporters, are driving economic recovery.