• Immigrants and the Suburban Influx
• BY: Alan Ehrenhalt   |   November 30, 2009
• This fall, Parkview High School, in Lilburn, Georgia, was unable to field a ninth-grade football team. That is no tragedy; many schools have never even...
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• Miami's Visionary Zoning Plan
• BY: Alan Greenblatt   |   October 31, 2009
• When it comes to building and construction, Miami has always been a wide-open town. That's about to change. Last month, the city council approved a...
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• Compost: the Next Step in City Recycling Programs
• BY: Linda Baker   |   September 30, 2009
• Over the past decade, curbside yard debris and leaf collection programs have led to a dramatic increase in the amount of organic matter that is...
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• Statewide Zoning: a Pipe Dream?
• BY: Alan Ehrenhalt   |   September 30, 2009
• Gregory Bialecki wants something for Massachusetts that no other state has: a comprehensive statewide zoning code. He thinks that's needed to break down the longstanding...
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• Obama and the Cities
• BY: Alan Greenblatt   |   March 31, 2009
• For the past 40 years, through the Great Society initiatives of Lyndon Johnson, the Enterprise Zone programs of HUD Secretary Jack Kemp, and the Hope VI...

• Radical Renewal
• BY: Josh Goodman   |   February 1, 2009
• At the Midtown Global Market in Minneapolis, you can pick up a gyro from Holy Land Grocery or, if you prefer, sushi and bubble tea...

• Flakes of Danger
• BY: Christopher Swope   |   November 30, 2008
• As winter sets in, mayors in northern climes may want to reflect on something that David Axelrod, one of the masterminds of Barack Obama's presidential...

• Eds, Meds and Urban Revival
• BY: Rob Gurwitt   |   April 30, 2008
• Look out from an upper-floor window of the old Sears building on the edge of downtown Birmingham, Alabama, and you can begin to appreciate the...

• Digital-Age Digs
• BY: Ellen Perlman   |   November 30, 2007
• For more than 200 years, St. Mary's Catholic Church Cemetery has anchored the corner of Washington and Church streets in Alexandria, Virginia, while several enterprises have...

• Wildfire Fight
• BY: Tom Arrandale   |   July 31, 2007
• Most dry summer months, somewhere in the country, a wildfire flares into a fearsome sight that fills the sky with harrowing flames and forbidding columns...

• Mayor in the Middle
• BY: Rob Gurwitt   |   January 31, 2007
• During the first week of December 2006, about a dozen Los Angeles hotel workers set up a week-long fast outside the Westin LAX hotel, not far...

• Evolution of a Mayor
• BY: Alan Ehrenhalt   |   January 31, 2007
• Governing Correspondent Rob Gurwitt went to Los Angeles to get a feel for the politics and policies of its mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa. I talked with...