Magazine
Issue 04: Competition and cities
February 2005
Many American city governments think they need big projects to compete – the sports arena, downtown hotel, or, as Sarah Kavage discusses in her article, the large company. But the articles in this issue tell us that maintaining the basics that make a city a god place to live and work on a daily basis drives success in the current economy. It’s about the schools and the parks, not the stadiums and convention centers.
Features
- Pride and Prejudice in the Andes
- Today’s Company Town
Seattle’s Boeing Fixation
- Urban Attraction
The “Advancement and Amenity Dollars” Benchmark
- The Race for Residents
D.C. and Baltimore Go Head to Head
- Chicago vs. New York
Carol Willis and Kenneth T. Jackson on the Future of the Skyscraper
- The Search for Nurses Ends in Manila
Departments
- Forgotten Spaces: Manhattan’s Hidden Garden
What To Do with the Highline?
- Environment: A Watershed Moment
A New Urban Environmental Movement is Born
- Historic Preservation: Finding Room for History in the Desert
Can Tempe Afford-or Afford Not To-Keep Its Oldest House?
- Governance: Beyond Opinion Polls
Athens Comes to New Haven
Etcetera
- ReviewsDavid Halle, New York & Los Angeles
Politics, Society, and Culture: A Comparative View, University of Chicago Press, 2003
- ReviewsJoan Didion
Where I Was From, Knopf 2003
