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Waving or Drowning? 26 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Chennai, a city once famous for its sprawling, pristine waterways, has spent the last century sacrificing those bodies of water, covering and polluting them in a frenzy of real-estate development. But...
IBM’s Department of Education 19 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
The first graduating class of P-TECH, a new vocational school in New York, is still four years away. But its model has excited many in the educational community, as well as big-name political leaders ...
The Offline Wage Wars of Silicon Valley 12 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Last November, the residents of San Jose voted for Measure D, which increased the California city’s minimum wage from $8 to $10 per hour. This 25 percent jump was the largest single minimum wage hike ...
The Improvisers 5 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Two trends are converging in Kenya that put the country on a dangerous trajectory. The first is a youth bulge: One-third of the country’s population is now between 18 and 34 years old. And the second ...
The Great East Baltimore Raze-and-Rebuild 29 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
The East Baltimore neighborhood of Middle East has had a fraught history with Johns Hopkins, the nation’s leading medical institution. As far back as the 1950s, residents of this largely black communi...
Hot, Crowded and Smart 22 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
San Antonio, Texas sits atop one of the largest underground sources of water in the world. But even the Edwards Aquifer is finite. San Antonio, along with the entire Southwest, is entering its third y...
Crowded House 15 Jul 2013 | 04:00 pm
Accra is an incredibly crowded place. People sleep on the streets or in shops, slums are crammed against gated communities and the average house holds 50 people. A population boom combined with a hous...
Beyond Code in the Tomorrow City 8 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
Since 2009, the San Francisco-based non-profit Code for America has embedded its budding techies in one-year fellowships with city halls around the country. The goal: To build apps that make city gove...
Can Urban Planning Rescue Detroit? 1 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
Any vision for far-reaching changes to Detroit is destined to meet considerable skepticism. After all, the mid-century urban renewal projects that decimated minority neighborhoods all throughout Motor...
Reform in the Back of the House 24 Jun 2013 | 03:00 pm
For years Philadelphia wasn’t known as city that attracted large numbers of either immigrants or foodies. That began to change in the mid-1990s, when high-end restaurants started popping up en masse i...
