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• The case for urban statehood
• Why smart growth isn't as smart as it thinks it is
• Saving the city from itself
• High speed, high cost, high income rail
• How cities became black & poor
• Bringing devolution to the hood
• New Orleans and urban planning
• Why urban policies don't do what they seek
• Street talk
• Cities and the environment
• No dreams on H Street
• San Francisco
• Making cities black and poor: the hidden story
• A new bottom of the ninth: rebuilding New Orleans
• A short history of black Washington
• Changing how urban planning works
• What rails and roads tell us about class & power
• Preserving culture & community
• Saving cities from themselves

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