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Are "Sentient Cities" That Track Your Personal Data To Design Your Life For You On the Way?

Will Doig, Salon. April 29, 2012.

Humans will act in ways that even the smartest computer model can fail to anticipate — which is fine, until you put your entire city in its hands.

Why We Need to Get Boomers to Move to the Cities

Will Doig, Salon. February 21, 2012.

If boomer retirees keep flooding suburbs, the cost of providing for them soars. Here's how we could get them to cities instead.

How Yelp Destroyed the Thrill of Exploring

Will Doig, Salon. January 29, 2012.

Zero of five stars! The Internet is loaded with crowdsourced opinions, making authentic, new experiences impossible.

Screwing Over Urban America: Why the GOP's Top Contenders Hate Cities

Daniel Denvir, Salon. January 3, 2012.

For the Republican contenders, urban areas are out of sight and out of mind.

Are Slower Cities Better for Bikers, the Air, and Our Mental Health?

Will Doig, Salon. December 18, 2011.

Cities around the world are considering radical new speed limits on cars -- slowing down in the name of progress.

America's Cities Are Segregated -- And Likely to Stay That Way

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, New America Media. April 3, 2011.

In most parts of urban America, the line dividing neighborhoods seems as deep as the Grand Canyon.

Wired Less: Disconnected in Urban America

Megan Tady, Internet for Everyone. April 14, 2009.

Even in some of our most tech-savvy wired cities, millions of people do not have high-speed Internet in their homes or businesses.

Note to the '08 Candidates: The American Heartland is a Big City

Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Drum Major Institute. December 20, 2007.

Mayors urge presidential candidates to address urban issues.

Suburbia: Running on Empty?

James Howard Kunstler, Salgamundi. December 14, 2006.

Robert Bruegmann argues in his new book that urban sprawl will continue because people like it, but reviewer James Howard Kunstler counters that the petro-dependent suburban era is just about finished.

Conservatives' Vision of an America Without Cities

Jeremy Adam Smith, Public Eye. December 12, 2006.

Rural Americans tend to see city culture as a haven for loose morals. Lucky for them, the Electoral College, Senate and federal budget have tilted power toward the heartland.

Cities of the Future Won't Look Like Ours

James Howard Kunstler, Kunstler.com. October 23, 2006.

The era of cheap oil is over, and lost with it an energy-rich way of life that billions of city dwellers have come to take for granted.