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Burgh Diaspora
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Facebook and Google Are Gentrifying San Francisco Neighborhoods
It's the only place they can fit all of their employees.
London Hosts the Olympics: How Success for People Is a Failure of Place
A living, breathing example of how we misunderstand the inequity of poverty.
New York City’s Next Williamsburg: Fishtown
How development in the Big Apple is affecting places far outside of the city's metropolitan area. Welcome to the sixth borough?
Vagabonds Will Revitalize Detroit
Plus: A Korean parable and Saskia Sassen on the differences between Chicago and the Motor City.
City as Suburb
Who are the world's mega commuters and what effect are they having on the cities they live and work in?
Why the Impoverished Need to Move to the Cities With the Highest Housing Prices
On poverty traps and the paradoxes of migration.
Exporting Higher Education and Global Innovation Networks
Why Japan's minister for education and science is making it a priority to double the import and export of university students.
Urban Islands of Poverty and Bowling With Strangers
Questioning our understanding of "gentrification" is a necessary first step toward helping people who are stuck in impoverished neighborhoods.