Long-vacant factories and polluted former manufacturing sites on the Cleveland's East Side are the focus of a redevelopment initiative that aims to lure new companies. Tap the link in the bio to read more.
📷️: Thomas Wasinski
A show at the National Building Museum remembers the Rosenwald Schools project, a constructive drive that built thousands of schools for rural Black children. Tap the link in the bio to read more.
📷️: Andrew Feiler
The restoration of Park Hill, a sprawling concrete development once shunned by public housing residents, has sparked fears of gentrification in Sheffield. Tap the link in the bio to read more.
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Sprawling counties may have lower housing costs. But they're eclipsed by high transportation and energy costs, a new study finds. Tap the link in the bio to read more.
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Driverless transit is increasingly common globally, but the plan to remove human operators from Washington, DC’s Red Line trains would be a first in the US, writes David Zipper. Tap the link in the bio to read his perspective.
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Smaller, older homes are plentiful in parts of the US. But the financing system that helps people buy or refurbish these fixer-uppers has broken down, writes Yuliya Panfil. Tap the link in the bio to read more.
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Mariana Mazzucato is the director of the University College London Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. She specializes in the political economy of technological development and public sector investment.
For an episode of the Odd Lots podcast — recorded in Madrid at the Bloomberg CityLab conference — she explains her concept of the "mission economy," her definition of state capacity, how to prevent top talent from fleeing to the private sector, and whether consultants or governments should be blamed for inefficiencies and civic failures. Tap the link in the bio to listen.
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More Americans bowl than play pickleball, tennis or basketball. The new HBO documentary, Born to Bowl, shows that the “dying” sport isn’t so dead. Tap the link in bio for more.
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The residents of Allentown are still sore about that Billy Joel song. While it's true the Pennsylvania city became synonymous with deindustrialization after the US steel industry began its decline in the 1970s, Allentown should be known for more.
For an episode of the Odd Lots podcast — recorded in Madrid at the Bloomberg CityLab conference — Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal speak to Mayor Tuerk about the city's grand strategy for building back and sustaining its manufacturing base, implementing industrial policy on a local level, and how rezoning has changed in the last decades. Tap the link in the bio to listen.
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Urban environments fueled the rapid spread of spotted lanternflies in the Northeastern US, researchers found. Now, they're here to stay. Tap the link in the bio to read more.
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Since Mayor Brandon Scott took office in 2020, he's fixated on a very visible problem in Baltimore: the tens of thousands of vacant homes that dot the city. It's hard to build new houses when there are so many that sit empty and unused.
For an episode of the Odd Lots podcast — recorded in Madrid at the Bloomberg CityLab conference — Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal speak to Mayor Scott about deindustrialization, redlining and the current housing crisis. Tap the link in the bio to listen.
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From TSA staffing shortages to surging fuel costs, it’s been a tough year for the aviation industry. DFW’s CEO is trying to stay calm and rise above it all. Tap the link in the bio to read more.
📷: Laura Buckman for Bloomberg Businessweek
