Cities
Saviors at City Hall?
Urban leaders offer a model for tackling big global problems that nation-states are failing to address.
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Urban Development - Book Reviews
Social innovations that improve the health of cities
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Cities
Manifest Density
Investment in "hyperdense" cities is, according to one writer, the key to solving many problems that afflict US society.
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Cities
Demographic Revision
The vast majority of neighborhoods in American cities do not "trade places." Instead, concentrated poverty and its opposite, concentrated affluence, are surprisingly persistent.
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Social Innovations
Climate Science as Culture War
The public debate around climate change is no longer about science—it’s about values, culture, and ideology.
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Cities
Misapplying Theory
In his latest book, David Sloan Wilson argues that evolutionary theory should be used to illuminate and tackle urban problems.
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Nonprofit Management
Scaling Play
KaBOOM! How One Man Built a Movement to Save Play by Darell Hammond
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Environment
Climate Speculations
CLIMATOPOLIS: How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future by Matthew E. Kahn
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Environment
An Environmental Provocateur
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto by Stewart Brand
Urban Development
Review: Random Family
Waller offers an intimate exposé of crime and drugs in the inner city.
Urban Development
Review: Civic Revolutionaries
Cross-sector collaboration is the key to community revitalization.