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<p>At first glance, downtown Evanston, Illinois, doesn’t look revolutionary—just another gentrifying urban core with the obligatory Whole Foods, the local organic sustainable restaurants serving $14 cocktails, the towering new, high-end luxury...

HCM City’s IIP surges 7% in seven months The index of industrial production (IIP) in HCM City grew by 7.05 per cent in the first seven months of 2016. Notably, key industrial sectors, such as mechanical and manufacturing industry, electronics, chemicals...

This essay is part of a new report from the Center for Opportunity Urbanism titled "The Texas Way of Urbanism". Download the entire report here. Any observer of urbanism in America knows that Austin tops numerous rankings of urban dynamism. Austin ...

The Montgomery County Council today reached unanimous tentative agreement on a $4.99 billion total County operating budget for Fiscal Year 2015. The budget, which reflects a 3.8 percent increase over the approved budget for FY 2014, allowed the Council...

Something big is coming up and something important might be neglected and set us way, way back. It is Earth Day 2020, and maybe we will not take advantage of a powerful opportunity to get cities right. This has everything to do with an honest confrontation...