When David Bakke visits Savannah, he loves dining at the upscale Olde Pink House. But Bakke, a writer for personal finance site MoneyCrashers, has fig...
WASHINGTON, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Personal income grew in all major U.S. metropolitan areas in 2011, the first time in four years that all of the count...
Ah, sweatpants -- there is nothing more comfortable than coming home at the end of a long day at work and throwing on your favorite pair. And with win...
The thriving restaurant scene in Seattle, Washington is eclectic, creative and inspiring. The same is true in the early-morning hours, with outstanding offerings when it comes to breakfast.
Now, a decade along, downtown New York City has not only recovered, it's been reborn. With a nod to the past and an eye toward the future, the World Trade Center site lives once more.
I've been traveling for 30 years. Yet nothing scarred me more than my recent role as a tourist in New York City. You might think, as I naively thought, that locals would be savvy enough to avoid tourist traps, but you'd be wrong.
Life is wonderful in the wilds of Alaska. Shopping for the holidays is severely limited, though, so my daughter and I set out for Seattle's most famous market.
This now-chic area has become a magnet for upscale, chef-owned and independently run restaurants. Some say there's more cooking talent along these streets than in the rest of the city combined.
The nation's biggest pinball museum is leaving Washington, DC for a 12,000-square-foot building in downtown Baltimore, where up to 900 machines will b...
The irony of operating a travel website is that sometimes you discover amazing things in your own town, like an enchanting new coffee shop called Pure Fare.
Los Angeles offers a wealth of easily accessible travel destinations for weekend escapes. From Palm Springs with its stark desert landscape and breath...
If our cities must be dense to be competitive and sustainable, we must also look with care to the potential displacement of uses, institutions or traditions -- not to mention the artifacts we will leave behind.
More so than public squares -- which require a conscious set-aside of assembled space -- corners naturally result from crossroads, the elemental feature of travel between places.
Cities are hubs of human interaction, and the urban experience can be enhanced by authentic participation in the dynamics of a place and transitions to nearby venues.
What if American cities legislated brighter color amid windows, balconies planted green and encouraged flags and hanging laundry? What if homeowner associations and rental contracts required vegetation and decoration?
With spring winding down and summer quickly approaching, Americans are starting to plan their vacations. But many are planning on saving money this summer by keeping their travel plans domestic.
Here, from afar, is more evidence that street and square, beach and byway all have a greater and unrealized multipurpose capacity, ripe for recalibration in ever-evolving America.
My name is Greg Selkoe and I am an entrepreneur. This is a phrase I am proud of and no matter what the activity, whether it was when I worked at City ...
Edward Glaeser's recent piece on Seattle is great press -- the stuff of boosterism and for use as evidence in corner of higher education, in the face of looming budget cuts in Olympia, our state capital.