These places where millennials are choosing to live still have the qualities of downtowns—dense housing, transit connections, walkability, good food, great bars—without the high prices of downtowns.
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As downtowns everywhere struggled, older companies stopped growing their footprints.
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The storefronts and banks were boarded up, the downtowns deserted.
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Storm surge pushed rivers into historic downtowns, subdivisions and apartment complexes.
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Downtowns have lower per-capita carbon emissions than suburban and rural areas.
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They replace the vibrant small town, town squares, and downtowns across America.
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Fitting families into dense downtowns is challenging for all kinds of reasons.
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Many downtowns are safer and livelier than they were 30 years ago.
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People trying to get car-less downtowns and just very similar to Europe.
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Empty lot gentrification has its own issues: It can create downtowns for elites.
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Vibrant downtowns are no longer exclusive, and affordability is beginning to trump location.
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Downtowns in decline are an old story, but this one has a twist.
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Downtowns are deserted, malls are closed, bars are empty, and airplanes are grounded.
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Millennials and empty nesters actually want the same thing: walkable downtowns and amenities.
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Many properties were old, drab or inconveniently situated, particularly compared with bustling downtowns.
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The downtowns of the Upstate's largest cities went from boarded up to spruced up.
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The suburbs are becoming cool again — as long as they resemble inner city downtowns.
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"It's no question that that is going to impact mall operators or downtowns," Lyne said.
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Modern urban areas have far more jobs scattered across the suburbs than concentrated in downtowns.
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Populations in some smaller river towns have dwindled, leaving half empty downtowns and derelict factories.
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This, among other factors, nearly killed downtowns, and malls reigned supreme for some 40 years.
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Downtowns would be emptied, and everyone would be connected through ''electronic cottages'' dispersed throughout the countryside.
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Their neighborhoods, factories, downtowns have been buffeted by automation, globalization and an increasingly marginalized middle class.
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This was an almost unheard-of civic victory in an era when downtowns were rapidly depopulating.
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Then I headed to Conestoga High School, past quaint and quiet downtowns and busy strip malls.
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Andrew M. Cuomo to spruce up downtowns ripe for redevelopment, said Peter I. Cavallaro, the mayor.
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So we are making a very purposeful effort to help revitalize downtowns of cities across upstate.
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A streetcar connected the red-brick downtowns of Berlin and Gorham, busy with shops, theaters, and restaurants.
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Their team was thinking of the most ambitious way to change zoning and jazz up their downtowns.
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As a result, areas around Washington are becoming edge cities and, in some cases, true urban downtowns.
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Towns like Floyd and Galax have seen their downtowns energized by new restaurants, art galleries, and shops.
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Colby is joining a number of smaller colleges that are taking a role in revitalizing flagging downtowns.
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Square footage may be more valuable in some suburban neighborhoods than it is in trendy metropolitan downtowns.
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Originally formed at the edges of downtowns, Chinatowns held on as such commercial and residential areas expanded.
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Their growth didn&apost just happen—these places chased it, with developed downtowns and plenty of citylike amenities.
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A nearby bus rapid transit route connects to two light-rail lines heading to each of the downtowns.
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Such transit made sense a century ago when most jobs were in downtowns surrounded by dense residential areas.
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Limited-access interstates, built to bypass congested downtowns, began to snake across the nation in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Despite several U.S. cities, such as Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Minneapolis seeing resurging downtowns, homebuyers have been moving farther out.
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Many have charming downtowns, some with the boutique exercise classes popular in the city and farm-to-table restaurants.
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Other cities in the state, including Durham and nearby Greensboro, have revitalized their downtowns, but High Point's has languished.
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Endangered then, they are thriving now, with the once abandoned downtowns of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia and even Cleveland blossoming.
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Scan the downtowns of the nation's largest cities, and you are likely to see a staggering array of cranes.
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"This initiative jump-starts our downtowns so they can be the economic engines we know they can be," Gov.
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Most companies assume self-driving cars will be shared and used in restricted, geofenced areas, like downtowns or college campuses.
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He also touts Westport's active engagement with the arts and education, along with its abundant recreational facilities and two downtowns.
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Mostly, though, they strut — on makeshift stages, set up to be torn down; through downtowns; right up to Iowans' doors.
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Competition from superstores and shopping malls also devastated many small-city downtowns; now many small-town malls are failing too.
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Square Feet After losing tenants to revitalized downtowns over the last decade, developers are adding modern amenities to secluded campuses.
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Monuments to the region's charged past continue to be contested and removed from statehouse grounds, college campuses, and the region's downtowns.
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Downtowns, it turns out, are one of the indicators as to whether a once-struggling place is coming back to life.
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If our society is focused on developing pleasant, sustainable and equitable downtowns, how can we maintain that focus as trips increase?
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As a result, suburban malls have destroyed downtowns across America, Kniffen contended, as businesses go belly up and customers dry up.
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Now the suburbs need a lot of help with everything from crumbling infrastructure and deteriorating downtowns to increasing air and water pollution.
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For RopeSwing, the Bentonville-based hospitality group "focused on redeveloping downtowns" in the Ozarks, this population boom represented a fabulous customer base.
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There is also tax-and-benefits arbitrage going on: over the past decades, the suburbs have become complacent and downtowns have got hungrier.
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Square Feet A number of small schools like Colby, in Maine, are hoping to improve off-campus amenities by helping to revitalize downtowns.
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The new glass "downtowns" that have exploded in the last decade and a half in Long Island City and over in Jersey City.
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But some cities, including Detroit, suffer because too few people want to live there, even as a small creative class revitalizes their downtowns.
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The boom has also been shaped by zoning that sometimes leaves downtowns and suburban commercial districts as the only practical spots for new housing.
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Only 153 percent of millennials in the survey lived in or near downtowns—the rest lived in other city neighborhoods—or in the suburbs.
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"I think we can start to see scooters in many denser cities and the downtowns of smaller cities as well," she told Fox News.
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The renewed focus on downtowns has been beneficial, but still, the majority of Americans moving to urbanized areas are actually going to the suburbs.
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Meanwhile in the United States, the sprawl of the suburbs, and decline of urban downtowns, required a new perspective on designing vibrant public space.
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Nowhere is Orange County's accelerating diversity more obvious than in its schools and shopping centers, where, in the absence of downtowns, community life unfolds.
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Two in particular — North Beach and Sunny Isles Beach — are burgeoning with new luxury residential buildings and more developed downtowns with restaurants and boutiques.
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Cities that were once cultural leaders and nightlife centres have encouraged large-scale residential developments in areas of their downtowns that were traditionally non-residential.
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Many, in fact, preferred to live in the nation's downtowns, eschewing personal cars in favor of shared Ubers, or walking to their work and play.
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How does gentrification look in New South cities like Austin and Nashville, where mid-century urban planning destroyed residential communities and left downtowns largely unoccupied?
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These highways would link distant cities but also thread through downtowns, allowing people to drive as quickly as possible from home to work and back.
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As the lure of urban living pulls more residents from the suburbs, developers are scooping up prime real estate in downtowns across the United States.
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Demand is fierce in communities that have the right mix of good schools, short commute times, fun and walkable downtowns, and lots of new, spacious homes.
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They're not really a forward-thinking transit solution—they're just tired, nostalgia-wrapped tropes serving as familiar anchors for developers to bring more investment to downtowns.
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Investing in walkable cities, whether through allocating funds to repaint pedestrian walkways or building affordable housing close to downtowns, also attracts diverse populations and creates jobs.
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Urban Studies Be skeptical when you hear about the return to glory of the American city — that idealized vision of rising skyscrapers and bustling, dense downtowns.
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New streetcars are rolling into many downtowns as a cheaper, faster alternative for building transit—not as cheap as, like, buses but apparently those aren't cool enough.
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Bike-share stations are disproportionately concentrated in downtowns with lower average road speeds and lots of pedestrians — that is, places where drivers tend to be more alert.
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Already, weekenders have helped revitalize the commercial districts in places like Narrowsburg and Livingston Manor, whose tiny downtowns have a vibrant mix of bistros and housewares shops.
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But some failed, and a rising chorus of critics derided his structures as islands of exclusion, paradoxically cut off from the downtowns they were intended to rescue.
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Both have had a renaissance and offer lovely downtowns, beautiful architecture, great waterfronts, beautiful parks, treelined streets, excellent cultural amenities, great public transportation and pro sports teams.
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Universities are often key to bringing in a constant supply of young people and employers, who are looking for that talent pipeline often found in urban downtowns.
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I wanted to be in Congress to fight for water, which is a huge issue here, to take on the big companies that are starving our small downtowns.
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Arguably, the best return on investment has been the two-year-old light rail line that connects the St. Paul and Minneapolis downtowns, Mr. Sherman and others say.
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Constantly adjusting prices for access to highways and congested downtowns could make traffic jams, with all the resulting wasted time and excess emissions, a thing of the past.
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Other countries' civil wars have shorn cities of their downtowns with a similarly breathtaking savagery — Beirut in the 21s; Sarajevo in the '2400s; Mogadishu in the new millennium.
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Predominantly minority neighborhoods near downtowns are growing whiter, while suburban neighborhoods that were once largely white are experiencing an increased share of black, Hispanic and Asian-American residents.
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Neon benders are busier than ever, museums are spearheading neon restoration projects, and cities are using the distinctive light to lure shoppers and diners to once deserted downtowns.
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By improving mobility options, Uber and Lyft can help make downtowns more vibrant, improve the flow of customers to retail stores, and drive up tax revenues for cities.
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Calexico has long celebrated its interdependent relationship with Mexicali, its sister city directly across the line; the two cities' downtowns are bisected by pillars where the border lies.
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"We come to communities that are economically depressed and have vulnerable populations," Siris Barrios, Community Liaison for Renaissance Downtowns, which focuses on impact real estate development, told VICE Impact.
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Traveling the country (he specialized in energy and grocery pricing), he found that "the downtowns of America's biggest and wealthiest cities started to come back to life," he said.
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Historic rural downtowns offer beautiful homes and authentic work spaces at a fraction of urban costs and come with immediate access to natural beauty, clean air and fresh produce.
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Renaissance Downtowns opened a storefront in Riverside in 2014 to listen to the needs of the community and to offer services like early childhood programming and leadership training for women.
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Cities are also rolling out this super-fast 25G in highly dense areas, like downtowns, and some carriers are selling transceivers for home use -- similar to how WiFi works today.
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Most experts agree that robot cars will first roll out as fleets of self-driving taxis in controlled environments — college campuses, business parks, dedicated freeway lanes, or downtowns of congested cities.
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It is often compared to Ridgewood, since both towns have thriving downtowns, but Westwood is "a little more down to earth," said Margaret Hanna, an agent with Keller Williams Valley Realty.
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Ryby acknowledges that having the business in Montclair has been significant in weathering the bedlam of the book business: "Not many downtowns around could support our kind of store," he said.
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Across the country, they rallied en masse on Saturday in downtowns, wearing pink cat-eared knit "pussy hats," waving handmade signs and sharing pictures on social media with the hashtag #WomensMarch.
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Many of those buyers bring a city mind-set to their hunt in the suburbs, driving competition in areas with in-town living, lively and walkable downtowns and commuter rail service.
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Some suburbs around New York City are becoming decidedly less suburban, as new apartment buildings and condominium communities close to mass transit help expand the downtowns of these villages and towns.
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That may have been a good idea when downtowns were seen as scary by tourists, but during an era when high-rise lofts are common and bars are hipper than ever?
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In the downtowns where he plies his trade, the economic benefits he brings are very real, according to research by Daniel Shoag and Stan Veuger, who wrote their analysis for AEI.
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"You can drive through most downtowns in America and find a jewelry store or a cash-for-gold place that will literally take your gold and convert it to cash," Boneparth said.
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Right now, there are garbage trucks around Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York, protests on the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles and angry crowds in many downtowns across the country.
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Malls overtook traditional downtowns in most communities because they are planned and built, by design, to maximize the economic value of these interaction effects and to integrate well with modern transportation technology.
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And in the 1990s, when many downtowns across the county were struggling, the city built a convention center, a hockey arena and a new home for the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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When they start thinking about growing their families, Mr. Huddy said, they are likely priced out of places like Pasadena and Burbank, which each offer their own walkable downtowns and culture spots.
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Their concern wasn't to make downtowns affordable to people other than the rich; it was to make cities remotely as appealing as the suburbs to people who had the choice to leave.
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The wholesale shift to the suburbs, ever-longer commutes and the rise of shopping malls and big-box stores fractured community life, as downtowns emptied and commerce shifted to the edges of highways.
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And far from being ghost towns, closer-in suburbs with walkable downtowns and train lines have also seen population gains in recent years, albeit smaller ones, said Mr. Evans, of New Jersey Future.
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The effect might be especially frustrating for California riders who live far away from busy downtowns, or, as David Zipper has pointed out on CityLab, in an area that drivers want to avoid.
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Demographic Shift Over the past decade, many American cities have been transformed by young professionals of the millennial generation, with downtowns turning into bustling neighborhoods full of new apartments and pricey coffee bars.
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Not only do extra-wide roads take up a lot of space, there's far too much property allocated to parking—about 20 percent of the land in many US downtowns are surface parking lots.
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That will allow investments with a lower expected pre-tax return — in the downtowns of depressed second-tier cities like Louisville or Cleveland, for example — to be more competitive with those in booming metropolises.
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Then came some interesting data, pegged to the release of 2014 Census data: Millennials have indeed started moving out of big city downtowns—but not necessarily in favor of a quiet rural or suburban life.
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Across the country, in more than a dozen cities, downtowns are being remade as developers abandon the suburbs to combine new sports arenas with mixed-used residential, retail and office space back in the city.
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Cities like Boston, San Francisco and Seattle have all done it — razed hulking, unsightly highways dividing the heart of their downtowns, pushed a new roadway underground and turned the space above into an urban paradise.
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The company's behemoth size and financial success fueled resentment; its critics complained about its low wages and accused it of driving small stores out of business and even wiping out entire downtowns across the country.
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While there are approximately 4,500 stars visible from a remote location on a clear night, that number drops to just a few hundred in the suburbs, and less than fifty from the downtowns of major cities.
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Timm Fuchs, who works for the German Association of Towns and Municipalities, said that sales models like Mr. Frühauf's are emerging in rural centers, whose downtowns empty after big-box shopping centers open down the road.
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The buildings themselves in most cities were influenced by Le Corbusier, a famed Swiss architect who in the early 19603th century had called for bulldozing downtowns and building in their place beautiful skyscrapers interspersed with parks.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — In a surprising twist on the manufactured downtowns that have spread across suburbia, a developer in this central Ohio city — looking to survive amid a retail apocalypse — is doubling down on the much-derided mall.
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Calling Manhasset and Port Washington "the 'it' markets" for buyers moving from the city, Ms. Keats said the towns were benefiting from highly rated school districts, a quick commute to Penn Station, "true" downtowns and waterfront access.
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"Rhodes echoed that sentiment in his statement on Medium: "Our success will look like more diversity in local communities — special and unique downtowns where people can discover high-quality items sold in stores owned by their neighbors.
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Public soccer fields and a municipal golf course line the Rio Grande on the US side and a manicured river-walk runs along the Mexico side, with both cities' downtowns connected by two steadily busy international bridges running overhead.
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The pageantry also gave him time to read the crowd—hundreds of expectant faces, citizens of a Central Valley checkered by alfalfa fields and raisin-processing facilities and half-abandoned downtowns—and suss out what they wanted to hear.
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John Portman, the architect and developer who revolutionized hotel designs with soaring futuristic atriums, built commercial towers that revitalized the downtowns of decaying postwar American cities and transformed Asian skylines from Shanghai to Mumbai, died on Friday in Atlanta.
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"We need to figure out prevention strategies to ensure we can respond to the crisis before it happens so that when we are experiencing forest fires and economic downtowns, people don't turn to violence to deal with stress," said Wells.
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Cities like Dresden and Leipzig have things to attract both wayward natives, like the Kluges, and outsiders looking for nice places to live: excellent infrastructure, meticulously refurbished downtowns, shorter commutes, a less hurried pace — in short, a better quality of life.
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Rail advocates also like to claim that downtown-to-downtown times on some high-speed rail trips will be faster than by plane, since most airports aren't located near downtowns and air travelers have to go through time-consuming airport security.
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Howard Zemsky, the president and chief executive of Empire State Development, the state economic development agency, said that by targeting downtowns, the state was seeking to reverse the steady brain drain of young people to places like Brooklyn and Boston.
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Other downtowns chosen for the $10 million grants in the first round of funding include Glens Falls, a city roughly 45 miles north of Albany; Jamestown, about 60 miles southwest of Buffalo; Jamaica, in Queens; and Westbury, in Nassau County.
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Today, as cities have had a resurgence, there are tons of jobs in downtowns, but gentrification and a surge in housing costs are once again keeping low-income workers away from jobs, says Yingling Fan, a professor at the University of Minnesota.
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"I am especially excited to see Macerich's centers becoming America's new town squares and downtowns and Macerich emerge as a leader in developing digitally native vertically integrated brands, the fastest growing digital commerce channel that exists today," Coppola said Thursday in a statement.
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Buyers priced out of the city are heading for the 'burbs, driving up demand and creating a more fraught buying process in close-in towns that have long enjoyed reputations for good school systems, lively downtowns and ready access to the city.
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But this is irrelevant, as fewer than 2628 percent of Americans live or work near big-city downtowns, and many major urban areas have more than one airport, giving travelers a choice of using the one that is most convenient for them.
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Mr. Carson's views worry many of his critics, who believe the federal government should be doing more, not less, for the nation's cities, where glittering downtowns and increasingly gentrified neighborhoods are often surrounded by areas of poverty and violence, with predominantly minorities.
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In areas near downtowns and train stations, 883 age-restricted developments with a total of 288,282 units have been built since 22000, stretching from Mineola east to Patchogue, said Eric Alexander, director of Vision Long Island, a regional smart-growth planning organization.
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At the same time, the company, and Mr. Bezos in particular, might have considered that Amazon's success has hollowed out aging downtowns and shopping malls across America, and that having at least one headquarters away from the coasts might have generated considerable political good will.
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The new Canoe Place Inn "will bring an economic boost to Hampton Bays and vastly improve the easternmost section of town," said Susan Von Freddi, owner of Village Real Estate and a member of the Suffolk County Downtown Advisory Board, which dispenses grants to help improve downtowns.
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Small towns in upstate New York or central Ohio are under similar pressure; in rural Minnesota, as heavily white as the Mississippi Delta is heavily black, small downtowns have also been abandoned, and local anxiety stoked by issues like a hospital's decision to relocate a county away.
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Walking around, I was constantly plagued by a feeling of déjà vu, perhaps because, as Thom Anderson points out in his documentary "Los Angeles Plays Itself," this downtown has stood in for so many other downtowns on the silver screen that it has become a kind of everyplace.
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This year's event consisted of four days and some of the best racers in world lapping through the downtowns of three cities, up some of the state's prettiest and most demanding peaks, live-streamed by NBC, following a flotilla of pace and support vehicles, watched by hundreds of spectators and one helicopter.
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But since renters tend to have higher incomes than in years past — households making more than $100,000 a year accounted for a third of the growth in renters over the past decade — many of the newer units are in the pricey glass and steel buildings that have sprouted in downtowns across the country.
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With 125,000 residents, over 54,000 homes, 32 square miles, 750 miles of road, and three distinct downtowns, The Villages in Florida is one of the largest retirement communities in the US. It's also been described as a raunchy, booze-filled boomtown for those who want to fill their twilight years line-dancing and no-strings-attached sex.
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He and his team determined that commuting was taking place beyond traditional rush hours; that members of the so-called millennial generation, born between 1980 and 2000, as well as aging baby boomers were becoming less dependent on cars and living closer to downtowns; and that more so-called reverse commuters were traveling between the boroughs and the suburbs.
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Fueled by an economic boom, a revival of urban areas, a proliferation of Uber and Lyft cars and an explosive growth in package deliveries propelled by the rise of Amazon, the average speed in urban downtowns fell to 211.8 miles per hour last year, down from 212.2 miles per hour in 22013, according to INRIX, a transportation analytics company.
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Mr. Tillman, 26, a construction foreman, was part of a makeshift rescue flotilla that has plucked hundreds of stranded people from attics, second-floor bedrooms, church vestibules and crumbling decks as relentless, record-setting rains from Tropical Storm Florence flood rivers across the Carolinas and send torrents of water through downtowns miles away from the coast.
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Whether it's the hotel owner who watches tourists pour in after enjoying a concert, the restaurant owner who happily adds up receipts after a local film festival, or the small-town mayor who revitalizes a dilapidated downtown with artists' lofts and galleries, they know the arts can transform decaying inner cities, bring back abandoned downtowns and give at-risk kids hope.
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Such systems are common in European cities but still a bold idea outside of a few downtowns in the U.S. "It's tough to get a single building to net-zero energy, but when you tie them together, it's easier," says Ken Smith, a consultant on the project and CEO of District Energy St. Paul, which has heated and cooled downtown St. Paul since 33.
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First they drive the broad, sunny streets of Phoenix; then highways; then in more complex situations, such as airports and downtowns; then in heavy rain; then amid detours and road closures; then in rough, winding country roads prone to landslides and flooding; then (some considerable time from now, says your Canadian correspondent) in snow and ice… And even then, how can a truly self-driving car handle anomalous situations, when the car doesn't know what to do and screeches to a halt?
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This includes encouraging local governments to allow growth in downtowns (as Seattle has done with Amazon) and in areas next to rail stations (the cloud content management company Box did it in Redwood City); identifying suburban locations that can be retrofitted with not just big office parks but also housing, stores and restaurants (Google has been trying to do this in Mountain View and is reportedly looking to install 300 units of modular housing there); and reducing the number of people driving alone in their cars to work and improving other transportation options.
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