Mapping Main Street
When politicians and the media mention Main Street, they evoke one people and one place. But there are over 10,466 streets named Main in the United States.
Popularity: 26% [?]
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Small, Green, and Good
Smaller cities have idiosyncratic charms of their own–worthy of sustained attention and renewal. And, fortuitously, they have a distinctive and vital role to play in the work of the new century: small cities will be critical in the move to local agriculture and the development of renewable energy industries. These tasks will almost certainly require a dramatic rethinking of land–use policy, and small cities have assets that large cities lack. Their underused or vacant industrial space and surrounding tracts of farmland make them ideal sites for sustainable land-use policies, or “smart growth.”
Popularity: 11% [?]