Americans ditched big cities during the pandemic. Now many are regretting it.

Tech Insider : Economy
A keychain containing a house, sad face and covid virus.
The dream of owning a home with a yard in the suburbs is turning out to be disappointing.

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The key to fighting the urban doom loop might be a downtown beach

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
People lounge at a new beach on Gansevoort peninsula on the West side of Manhattan.
People lounge at a new beach on Gansevoort peninsula on the West side of Manhattan on an unseasonably warm day in October 2023.

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Urban golf courses are making housing more expensive and parks harder to access — and taxpayers are footing the bill

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics, Sports
Homes line the Harding Park Golf Course in San Francisco, California, a publicly-owned municipal golf course owned by the City and County.
Homes line the Harding Park Golf Course in San Francisco, California, a publicly-owned municipal golf course owned by the City and County.

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America's cities are vying for a hot new title: best place to ride out the coming dystopia

Tech Insider : Economy
Once-forgotten cities in the Midwest and Northeast are trying to win people over with the promise of fewer climate-driven floods, fires, and storms.
Once-forgotten cities in the Midwest and Northeast are trying to win people over with the promise of fewer climate-driven floods, fires, and storms.

Chelsea Jia Feng/Insider

There's an easy way cities can lure in more holiday shoppers: Get rid of street parking

Tech Insider : Economy
Shoppers at Bryant Park's Winter Village shopping area in Manhattan, New York.
Shoppers at Bryant Park's Winter Village shopping area in Manhattan, New York.

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The warped financial logic fueling America’s ‘doom loop’

Tech Insider
A boarded up store front with red boards representing a downward arrow
Landlords could help reverse the Retail Apocalypse by lowering rents and extending leases — but their lenders won’t let them.

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They got out of prison. Then the city gave them $7,200 — no strings attached.

Tech Insider : Economy
A woman and her family in front of a globe collage of money, childcare and work.
All across America, the evidence is overwhelming: Universal basic income is working.

Chelsea Jia Feng/Insider

In the spring of 2022, Tydricka Lewis finally bought a car that started every time she asked it to and no longer left her stranded.

Poverty is rising faster in American suburbs as lower-income people are pushed out of big cities

Tech Insider : Economy
An aerial view of new home construction at a housing development in the Phoenix suburbs on June 9, 2023 in Queen Creek, Arizona.
An aerial view of new home construction at a housing development in the Phoenix suburbs on June 9, 2023 in Queen Creek, Arizona.

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I looked at the plans for the new city proposed by Silicon Valley elites. They're really terrible.

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California Forever
California Forever presents an idyllic vision of city life — but it's completely clueless about how cities actually work.

California Forever

Why so many buildings in Singapore are covered in plants

Tech Insider : Economy
A view of a residential apartment (L) and Oasia hotel with its facade covered in plants in Singapore on June 19, 2018.
A residential apartment building, left, and the Oasia Hotel with its facade covered in plants in Singapore on June 19, 2018.

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