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Detroit was once the innovation center of America. Ingenuity propelled a booming auto industry, Motown synthesized and popularized a new form of music...

The Center for Active Design has led the development of design guidelines for promoting physical activity. 

While between projects in late 2007 and early 2008, Marcus Westbury, a maker, festival director and writer, was exploring his hometown of Newcastle, A...

Erin Kelly is program manager of Innovative Landscapes, an initiative of Detroit Future City.

Make your way to the edge of downtown Detroit, and you will find a river. Until recently, it wouldn't have been a very inviting experience. But today,...

Attracting and retaining talent is at the top of the economic development agenda in many U.S. cities. And the organization that probably knows best ho...

Who doesn't love a great market? And there is none livelier than Reading Terminal Market in Center City Philadelphia. Anuj Gupta is the market's new g...

Until last summer, Philadelphia’s Spruce Street Harbor was moribund, lacking people and energy. That is, until David Fierabend and his colleagues at G...

Meg Daly is founder and president of Friends of The Underline.