Near Atlanta, a burst of newly minted cities
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Eager for legislative independence and a sense of identity, some suburbs in Georgia are voting to become cities of their own.
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Stoop sales have become big business in some Brooklyn neighborhoods.
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From downtown to Brooklyn and beyond, dance is evolving into a myriad of hybrids, as seen in recent performances.
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Burlesque is back. Fans of the fancy form of striptease that first flourished in Depression-era downtowns can find swiveling hips and spangled lingerie weekly in at least 12 U.S. cities.
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And so the great real estate boom has ended. Left in its wake are anxious sellers and hopeful renters, fidgety buyers and freebie-wielding developers, deserted open houses and blocks crowded with for-sale signs, scaled-back retirement plans and first-time homes that suddenly seem within reach.
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By Kathleen Hennessey Associated Press  LAS VEGAS -- This may be a boomtown, but Las Vegas is scattered with signs of bust. The newest sits outside a rare grassy refuge near the city's withered downtown.
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Planners have been inundated with a flood of applications for new housing developments.
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Many of the region's outer suburbs are adding jobs faster than most other large counties in the nation, Labor Department data says.
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By Chuck Thompson, The Macon Telegraph, Ga.  Sep.
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That's hyper as in linked and local as in location. It's a new kind of city in which you're never out of touch and never, ever out of options.
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Printing several versions of a newspaper in the same city, each with ads aimed at a specific neighborhood, promises to yield increased sales of Kodakâs high-speed production printers.
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Builders responded to new demands for houses built to accommodate their owner's technolust. They built lots of homes and packed them with every new gewgaw a potential buyer might dream of. And then they built some more. Now, thanks to the housing bust, virgin homes and condos sit unoccupied in cities like Las Vegas, Phoenix, Miami, and, yes, Orlando.
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Out of Bombay's shanty sprawls and rain-worn architectural reminders of its colonial past sprout shiny new apartment complexes, malls and offices that are reshaping the world's fifth-biggest metropolis.
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CHICAGO -- One might think Chicago already qualifies as a "global city."
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NEW YORK -- You're sitting in the center of the fabulousness. The stinky old Fulton Fish Market is gone, and cobblestone streets are lined with boutiques and $1 million condos with floor-to-ceiling windows, and the sky is that razor blue.
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One hot market is about to get a whole lot more interesting.
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Christopher B. Leinberger, a visiting fellow with the Brookings Institution, believes the move into urban corridors that is occurring in the Washington area is being used as a model for urban centers across the country.