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Why Car-Crazy Cities Are Now Riding the Rails
With new demands for housing and activities downtown, Sun Belt metropolises are rethinking how their residents get around.
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Houston, Kinder Institute to Host Next City Vanguard Conference in 2016
What happens when you bring dozens of the country's most promising young urbanists to a city and set them loose to solve its biggest challenges?
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What Ancient Cities Can Teach Us About Using Public Spaces
“Tactical urbanism” isn’t a new phenomenon, research reveals.
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Women in Politics; Food Stamps and Uber for Bikes: Urban Insights From Around The Web
A new feature highlighting the week’s interesting, important and downright weird news about cities.
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What maps reveal about Houston’s health problems
Images help illustrate links between income, environment and disease.
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What do Houston’s mayoral candidates think of our obesity epidemic?
Upcoming debate aims to shed light on public health issues
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How Houston Can Harness the Power of “Big Data”
Unprecedented partnership between Rice and City of Houston is part of a growing movement.
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How Diversification is Changing America’s Families
As both Houston and the United States become more diverse, study sheds lights on what that means closer to home.
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Segregated Schools; Stadium Boondoggles and Trump State Park: Urban Insights From Around The Web
A new feature highlighting the week’s interesting, important and downright weird news about cities.
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Why Residents Have Nuanced Views of Gentrification
Research reveals stark differences among how middle-class residents perceive redevelopment.
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