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Donald Trump: Crime Fighter, Or Crowd Pleaser?
How Americans live contributes mightily to our inability to come to terms with pressing social issues.
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Pete Saunders
Cities And Suburbs: Get It Together
Fighting to see which development type is best is a no-win game.
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Housing Affordability vs. Economic Mobility – What’s More Important For Cities?
Trick question -- they're equally important.
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CSY Replay #30: Inequality Is Inefficiency
The fundamental reason why American cities -- all of them -- underperform.
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Pete Saunders

July 2025

Atlanta’s Sluggish Growth Is Geographically Influenced
The region has literally painted itself into a corner.
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Pete Saunders
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Remember Urban Authenticity?
When cities embrace the things that make them different, they embrace their unique strengths.
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I'm Sticking With "Eds And Meds"
It's a workable community revitalization and economic development strategy -- for some cities, but perhaps not all.
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CSY Replay #29: Toward a Clearer Definition of City and Suburb
For many, "urban" means old and "suburban" means new, or at least newer. That contributes to our definition confusion.
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Pete Saunders
Middle Class Reimagination
Today's service class deserves the same kind of economic infrastructure that made middle class households out of manufacturing workers.
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Great Lakes Cities As Climate Refuges? A Possibility But Not The Only One
Dismissing the fact that it could happen comes at other city's own peril.
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Chicago Heat, Thirty Years Later
Every so often something happens that reminds us of the segregation and inequality of American society. When did "it sucks to be you" become an…
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CSY Repost #28: Countering Chicago’s “Citadel of Affluence”
Chicago's south lakefront is becoming a Black-plurality mirror image of the city's north lakefront. It's just taking longer to get there. With the right…
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