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• Census: Small US cities lose luster in downturn (Kansas City Star, November 16, 2009)
• Conventions seek lower-profile cities (USA Today, October 7, 2009)
• Retiring baby boomers begin heading for the country (The Oregonian, October 3, 2009)
• Home is where the heart is – and the money, too (Globe and Mail, September 30, 2009)
• The next youth-magnet cities (Wall Street Journal, September 30, 2009)
• Alternative energy projects stumble on a need for water‎ (New York Times, September 29, 2009)
• Can billboards spruce up Market Street? (San Francisco Chronicle, September 29, 2009)
• Interest in farmers markets is growing (USA Today, September 28, 2009)
• Growers reap fruits of labor at farmers markets (USA Today, September 28, 2009)
• 'Twilighters’ put small town in the spotlight (New York Times, September 27, 2009)
• As City Grows More Bike-Friendly, Restaurants Consider the Benefits (The Village Voice, September 17, 2009)
• Palm Springs wants to fill vacant storefronts with art (Los Angeles Times, September 17, 2009)
• In New Orleans, Recovery Is Not Enough (New York Times, August 30, 2009)
• Feds get $28B in requests for $7.2B to extend broadband (USA Today, August 28, 2009)
• 'Fastest dying cities' meet for a lively talk (Wall Street Journal, August 13, 2009)
• To create jobs, Tennessee looks to New Deal model (New York Times, July 27, 2009)
• Tough times lead to local currencies (Time Magazine, July 13, 2009)
• Land banks gain popularity as way to fight urban blight (USA Today, July 9, 2009)
• Broadway’s Car-Free Zones: This Space for Rent (New York Times, July 8, 2009)
• City under gun to ease blight flight (San Diego Union-Tribune, July 7, 2009)
• Cities grow at suburbs' expense during recession (Wall Street Journal, July 1, 2009)
• Mayors complain about stimulus spending (Los Angeles Times, June 22, 2009)
• New rail lines spur urban revival (New York Times, June 14, 2009)
• Sherwood rethinks fiber-optic access for all (The Oregonian, June 14, 2009)
• How a greener city gets growing (Baltimore Sun, May 26, 2009)
• As boom town busts, a brief political movement fades away (New York Times, May 11, 2009)
• High-speed solar train proposed as Tucson-Phoenix connection (Arizona Daily Star, May 8, 2009)
• In hard times, Rhode Island's capital hopes new slogan proves providential (Wall Street Journal, May 7, 2009)
• Small area towns fight flat growth, flight of youth (Longview News Journal, May 3, 2009)
• Artists vs. Blight (Wall Street Journal, April 17, 2009)
• Community colleges play key role in tough economic times (Christian Science Monitor, April 11, 2009)
• Cities cleaning, 'greening' urban alleys (USA Today, April 9, 2009)
• Communities print their own currency to keep cash flowing (USA Today, April 6, 2009)
• Job migration to suburbs: an unstoppable flow? (Christian Science Monitor, April 6, 2009)
• Visual aids for the pushcart world (New York Times, April 3, 2009)
• Why college towns are looking smart (Wall Street Journal, March 24, 2009)
• YouthBuild: one stimulus model (Christian Science Monitor, March 13, 2009)
• Urban areas see revival in housing construction (USA Today, March 10, 2009)
• Stimulus dollars energize efforts to smarten up the electric power grid (Washington Post, March 10, 2009)
• High-speed rail drives Obama's transportation agenda (Washington Post, March 8, 2009)
• San Diego reinvents a fading quarry (New York Times, March 3, 2009)
• Mayors support 'jumbo' bridge (Oregonian, February 24, 2009)
• Are malls a dying breed? (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 22, 2009)
• Slice of stimulus package will go to faster trains (New York Times, February 19, 2009)
• Wealthy cities discovering they're not recession-proof (Los Angeles Times, February 17, 2009)
• Some places revisit immigration laws (USA Today, February 10, 2009)
• Cities, towns ready to vie for stimulus funds (USA Today, February 2, 2009)
• States to win big in stimulus sweepstakes (Christian Science Monitor, January 25, 2009)
• Cities shed artful light on the canvas of night (Christian Science Monitor, January 9, 2009)
• Reinventing Estacada: from timber to manufacturing (The Oregonian, December 27, 2008)
• Recession slows migration in U.S. (Wall Street Journal, December 23, 2008)
• Quickly building local stimulus: Mayor puts public projects on faster track to prime economic pump (Denver Post, December 12, 2008)
• Art Basel: The power of art (Miami Herald, December 7, 2008)
• Fighting blight a building at a time (Philadelphia Inquirer, November 29, 2008)
• Shopping malls are running on empty (Los Angeles Times, November 24, 2008)
• A lone bright spot in real estate: farmland (Christian Science Monitor, November 18, 2008)
• Momentum might be building to build up the U.S. infrastructure (Baltimore Sun, November 17, 2008)
• Portland's low-income neighborhoods are city's 'food deserts' (The Oregonian, November 15, 2008)
• Bad air costing state's economy billions (San Francisco Chronicle, November 13, 2008)
• As a road to a better economy, an old idea gains ground (Los Angeles Times, November 9, 2008)
• Tired strip malls present opportunities to reshape the landscape (The Oregonian, November 7, 2008)
• South End project is 'not just a big gray box' (Charlotte Observer, November 6, 2008)
• More Car Dealers Shut Down (Wall Street Journal, October 28, 2008)
• Mall glut to clog market for years (Wall Street Journal, September 10, 2008)
• Towns recycle abandoned stores (USA Today, August 27, 2008)