cities

“I've always had a love-hate relationship with large cities."
Dense downtowns, public transit and walkable streets attract young residents and have economic, environmental and health benefits.
Mayors from 19 cities are meeting in Washington to talk about cutting planet-warming emissions.
Does the place you call home fall into one of these categories? Here's the good, the bad and the surprising.
Or you may want to get in on the cheap housing and hopes for tomorrow.
Reduce urban sprawl, for one thing.
When you look at the island of Manhattan on a map, it looks like a sliver of something, a slab you could pick up and hold in your hand. But though it looks small, it's quite a heavy slab, because it's piled extremely high with a ton of stuff.
You don't need to know much about Vice President Joe Biden to know about his love affair with Amtrak. As a longtime senator from Delaware, Biden would commute between Wilmington, Del., and Washington. By his estimation, that's 8,000 trips. Biden is basically Amtrak's no. 1 fan.