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Next City — 162 episodes

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Summer Break

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On Being Planners With Purpose

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After 150 Episodes, Revisiting Our Favorite Solutions

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For Immigrant Communities, These Organizations Build Belonging

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How Boston’s Chinatown Turns Culture Into Power

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How To Transform Closed Schools for Community

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Real Solutions Are Everywhere

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Lessons on Serving Immigrant Communities Under Attack

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Community Power Is Finally Going Big in Economic Development

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Tenants Rising: Organizing for Housing Justice, Part 2

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Tenants Rising: Organizing for Housing Justice, Part 1

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This City Spent $1 Million To Erase $90 Million in Residents’ Debt

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Artists in Government: Creativity as Civic Infrastructure

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Building Affordable Housing Without Federal Dollars

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From Tangled Title to Shared Prosperity

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A Food Security Solution for Urban and Rural Neighbors

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Solutions for Rebuilding After Climate Disaster

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Telling the Story of Housing Affordability

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How We Build Community Ownership and Self-Determination

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Takeaways From A Tumultuous Year in Economic Justice

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The Role of Philanthropy in This Moment

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Building The Community Power Ecosystem

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When Community Benefits Agreements Work (And When They Don’t)

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Learning Community Power By Example: The Chinatown Arena Fight

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What Collective Ownership Looks Like in Philly

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Revisiting: Emergent City - A Decade-Long Fight Against Displacement

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Philadelphia’s Pyramid Club Reborn Through Art and Afrofuturism

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Designing for Childhood: How Cities Are Ending Playspace Inequity

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City-Building with Culture at the Core

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How Your Nonprofit Can Use Research to Strengthen Impact

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A Federal Freeze Won’t Stop Green Progress

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Alternative Models For Funding and Supporting Cultural Spaces and Workers

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The Fight for Freedom of Mobility in Black America

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Heroic Oysters Are ‘Holding Back the Tide’

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Razing Liberty Square: On Writing the Playbook to Fight Gentrification

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'The Black Power Scorecard:' On Expanding Power and Lives

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Revisiting Lexington - "This ‘Big Town’ Has Solutions for Cities Everywhere"

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Creating Common Ground: The Value of Public Parks

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How Community Development Is Responding To This Crossroads

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Not My Narrative – “The Bootstraps Narrative” (Pilot Episode)

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Unlocking Housing Access: Why Tenant Screening Protections Matter

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The Evolution of the Queer Women’s Gathering Space?

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The Problem With Streets and Climate Disasters

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One Way to Ensure ‘Altadena Is Not For Sale’

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This “Unapologetically Black” Monument Is Already Changing Los Angeles

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The Quiet Engine for Affordable Housing in Red and Blue States

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What Happens When Wildfire Relief Inspires Too Many Donations

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The First Draft of Pandemic History

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In Conversation with the Former NEA Chair on What’s Next for the Arts

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A Proven Solution For Preventing Homelessness

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So Many Land Trusts Launched in NYC That They Created A Map

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How We Get The Banks We Deserve

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Fixing the Housing Crisis Goes Beyond Building More Units

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Inside the Fight to Save LGBTQ Landmarks and Culture

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The Intersection of Philanthropy, Storytelling, and Racial Justice

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Emergent City: A Decade-Long Fight Against Displacement

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One Way Cities Are Welcoming Immigrants

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Crushing Medical Debt: The Movement to Revolutionize Healthcare Access

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Reckoning with the History of Community Development

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Repairing Democracy Beyond the Ballot Box

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What The Election Means for Cities

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On Making Appalachia Safer from Climate Change

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What Lexington Taught Us About Urban-Rural Interconnection

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Revisiting Lexington - "This ‘Big Town’ Has Solutions for Cities Everywhere"

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Why Urban Farms Should Be Taken Seriously

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Where Artists Are Taking Over Vacant Storefronts

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The Truth About Whether Speed Cameras Make Us Safer

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These Loans Help Poor Families Rebuild After Climate Disasters

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The New Rules Are Here: Unpacking the CRA

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Farming While Black

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Even Your Property Taxes Were Redlined

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A Boston Neighborhood’s Cautionary Tale About Climate Change

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A Climate Documentary on Solutions

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Revisiting "What If You Give $5,800 To Someone Who Is Homeless?"

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This ‘Big Town’ Has Solutions for Cities Everywhere

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The Future of Human Transit

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What If Your City Gave You Money for Transit?

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Why We Need More Real Estate Developers of Color

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The Future of Chinatown

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A City Where Mental Health Isn’t for Policing

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Revisiting: The Black Barber Who Launched A Credit Union

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Cars Are the Problem. She Wrote A Manifesto On It

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What We Can Learn From ‘Ghost Rivers’

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One Tiny Credit Union Is Powering Brooklyn’s Economy

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Countering Extreme Heat Requires All of Us

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The Secret to Long-Term Recovery in Puerto Rico?

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Can We Make Homebuying Permanently Affordable?

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Building a Future of Food Security with Community Fridges

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SOTY Revisit: One City Made Former Prisoners A Protected Class

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SOTY Revisit: Boston Is Helping To Buy Up Buildings And Keep Rents Affordable

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SOTY Revisit: Why So Many People Attend City Meetings in Lexington

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SOTY Revisit: The Black Barber Who Launched A Credit Union from His Shop

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Latino Loan Funds Supporting Latino Business Owners

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If The NFL Can Do It, So Can You

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Can Development Be Anti-Racist? This Report Shows Us How

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The ‘Death Star’ Law Is Real and Coming to a State Near You

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The New Crowdfunding: Where the Neighborhood Owns Local Businesses

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The Real Consequences of Not Funding POC Arts

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Creating a Sanctuary Where Artists Can Sustain Their Work

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We Can Just Decide Not To Evict People With Convictions From Public Housing

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How We Stop Discriminating Against Housing Vouchers

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Where Housing Comes First When Solving Homelessness

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Boston Is Helping To Buy Up Buildings And Keep Rents Affordable

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Why So Many People Attend City Meetings in Lexington

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The Importance of Black-Owned Banks

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Can You Build an LGBTQ Neighborhood? Cleveland Is Trying

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Don’t Demolish! Deconstruct Instead

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How Hurricane Harvey Led to One Of The Nation’s Largest Land Trusts

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No Lost Food: Organization Fights Waste and Hunger

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Where the Community Owns The Real Estate

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The Black Barber Who Launched A Credit Union

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Even More Solutions for Backyard Homes

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A Village Run By People Experiencing Homelessness

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These Zero-Interest Loans Help Black Americans Buy Houses

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One City Made Former Prisoners A Protected Class

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Where Indigenous Land Return Is Already Possible

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The Results So Far: Is Guaranteed Income Cutting Poverty?

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They Built 335 Miles of Bike Lanes in 24 Months

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What Happens When the Bus Is Free To Ride

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Where the Employees Bought The Landscaping Business

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Uber-For-Buses Comes Right to Your Door

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These Tenants Took on Their Corporate Landlords

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Let’s Talk More About EBikes, Less About Electric Cars

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Tulsa Offered to Pay People to Move; 50,000 Applied

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Understanding Patagonia and Perpetual Purpose Trusts

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That Art On Your Street Makes Them Safer

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One City Is Already Making Reparations Payments

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These LGBTQ Seniors Built Their Own Place to Retire

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How Many Cities Are in the World? A New Way to Count

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Using Queer Power to Stem Gentrification

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Ending the Colonial Mindset in International Philanthropy

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These Maps Once Showed Where Being Gay Was Safe

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A Proven Way to Reduce Violence in Cities

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Can This Beer Stop Lesbian Bars From Going Extinct?

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The Case for Guaranteed Income for Transgender Americans

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Where Overdue Library Books Became A Thing of the Past

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Taking the Corporate Profits Out of Your News

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The First City To Launch Its Own Bank

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Chinatown Nights Is Cultural Power And Preservation

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Too Hot? Your City Needs a New Coat of Paint

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How Cap-And-Trade Keeps People In Their Homes

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What If We Put Another House in Your Backyard?

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The Only County Where Child Removal Is Race-Blind

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Can Landlords Compromise? This Anti-Eviction Program Says Yes

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The Business That’s Owned By An Idea

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What If You Give $5,800 To Someone Who Is Homeless?

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We Could Stop Policing Homelessness and Start Helping

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Is Giving Away Cash the Best Way to Cut Poverty?

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Can Higher Education Bring Your City to the Next Level?

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What Kind of City Evolves from a Crossroads?

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What To Do When Racism Is Profitable

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Welcome to Princeville, A Town Founded By Black Americans

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Actually Foundations Keep 95% of Their Cash

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This Technology Has Cleared 140,000 Marijuana-Related Convictions So Far

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This Is Our Land, Not A Money-Making Scheme

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The Real Reason Dollars Stores Are Everywhere

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An ‘Unapologetically Black’ Monument Rises in Los Angeles

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This Ride-Hailing App Alternative Is Owned By the Drivers

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These Formerly Incarcerated Women Launched A Worker-Owned Business

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The Black-Owned Startup Turning Buildings Into Teslas

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These Cities Have Ended Chronic Homelessness

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