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Baseball
Take me out to the ballgame…and let’s stay the night. So is the new mantra of Major League Baseball. After a period between 1991 and the mid-2010s that saw nearly every Major League team build a new stadium, the pace of ballpark construction over the last five years
Demographics
For most of the last hundred years, the dominant fear in academic and policy circles has been that the world was growing too fast. Too many people, too many mouths, too much consumption, and not enough resources to sustain it all. From the Club of Rome to The Population Bomb,
Cities
We’ve written about the vision for NEOM multiple times on Capital Frontiers. NEOM is the massive new city project Saudi Arabia launched in 2017 in the country’s northwest corner by Jordan, a priority project of the Crown Prince with the objective to create an unparalleled and unprecedented reinvention
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When the ownership of the Cleveland Indians decided to change the team’s name a few years ago, the opportunity presented them a generational opportunity to rebrand not only the Cleveland Baseball Team but, in some ways, the entire city of Cleveland, for the next century. With the recent announcement
Cities
It’s an uncomfortable question for planners, mayors, and urban theorists alike: what if most people never really wanted to live in cities in the first place? For decades, the prevailing narrative has been that cities are the apex of civilization—a place where ideas collide, creativity thrives, and human
America
Originally published on New Geography 2017's tragic events in Charlottesville kickstarted a somber debate about the appropriate way to commemorate the war that gave all Americans their freedom. It also triggered a conversation about whether the south’s legacy of rebellion and independence – with slavery a painful and
Cities
Downtown Asheville, North Carolina: One of the best vacation destinations in the United States, Asheville features a hilly downtown with some of the best shopping and restaurants in the entire country. From the French Broad Chocolate Bar to restaurants featured on the Eater 38, downtown Asheville is hopping come summertime.
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2025 note: This post was originally published in 2013. Its projections about the future of downtown proved shockingly accurate, as many planners have now embraced the notion of a "residential future of downtown" . Today, the combined loss of commercial real estate demand downtown is being coupled with an
Cities
Originally published in 2015: https://www.newgeography.com/content/005063-techno-fixing-urban-zone In 2008, when Chicago inked a deal to privatize its parking meters, a chorus of groans ensued. To say that the deal was widely panned is putting it mildly. Its detractors say the city accepted too little in exchange for
Cities
Originally published October 2013: https://www.newgeography.com/content/003939-cincinnati-bridging-downtown-and-suburbs One of the most contentious under-the-radar mayoral races heated up in Cincinnati on September 10th, with former city council representative John Cranley surging to a huge 55%-37% primary victory over previously presumed frontrunner Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls. The primary