Grapes and Gloves
Part One: The Corporate Game Although it is no longer America’s highest-revenue sport, baseball is still known around the world as America’s “national pastime”. Because of its long season, it attracts more viewers than any other American sport. Because of the way it is played, it is America’
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Do oil and water mix? Kavango East is an unrivaled repository of oil and fresh water in Africa. Botswana and Namibia are positioned to benefit from it. Could it catalyze a future greater than even they yet realize? Capital Frontiers investigates. The Lightning in a Bottle Equation It is among
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Downtown Asheville, North Carolina: One of the best vacation destinations in the United States, Asheville features a hilly downtown with some of the best shopping and restaurants in the entire country. From the French Broad Chocolate Bar to restaurants featured on the Eater 38, downtown Asheville is hopping come summertime.
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2025 note: This post was originally published in 2013. Its projections about the future of downtown proved shockingly accurate, as many planners have now embraced the notion of a "residential future of downtown" . Today, the combined loss of commercial real estate demand downtown is being coupled with an
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Originally published in 2015: https://www.newgeography.com/content/005063-techno-fixing-urban-zone In 2008, when Chicago inked a deal to privatize its parking meters, a chorus of groans ensued. To say that the deal was widely panned is putting it mildly. Its detractors say the city accepted too little in exchange for