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Matt Bevilacqua | Next American City | Jan 26th, 2012 | Topic: Economy | Region: | Cities: |
Industry doesn’t progress as a single unit. Oftentimes, a particular field will thrive or stagnate depending on which city you’re talking about. Now an interactive map from the Urban Institute shows how different sectors are faring in different American cities—and yields some interesting factoids. (
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Matt Bevilacqua | Next American City | Jan 25th, 2012 | Topic: Governance, Economy | Region: | Cities: |
Last night President Obama said that the federal government should do what it can to bring outsourced manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. Around the country, cities have already begun creating these sorts of jobs where none existed before. And they are incorporating one crucial new component: sustainability. (
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Diana Lind | Next American City | Jan 25th, 2012 | Topic: Governance | Region: East Coast | Cities: Washington, D.C. |
President Obama’s vision for the United States updates the American Dream with old rhetoric. Isn’t it time to recognize that 21st-century values need to be different than ones of the past? (
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Worldwatch | Josh Leon | Nov 22nd, 2010 | Topic: Infrastructure, Governance, Economy | Region: Midwest | Cities: Detroit |
“Micro-entrepreneurship” and “right sizing” are catch phrases in the urban lexicon that ignore cities’ roles as sites of physical production. Places like Detroit would do well to generate knowledge sector employment but shouldn’t be abandoned as manufacturing centers. (
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Andrew Thompson | Apr 7th, 2009 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Detroit |
In the latest installment of his column, Metronomics, Andrew Thompson explores the difference between “localization” and “urbanization” economies and explains how stimulus money can be better used to help struggling cities. (
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Jeffrey Hill | Jul 26th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Washington, D.C. |
Next American City’s Jeffrey Hill was on hand at The Brookings Institute’s Hamilton Project panel discussion last Friday, validating his predictions over the last few months over infrastructure. As Linda Richman would say - America’s infrastructure is neither “in” nor “structured,” discuss… (
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