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Town: Michigan

17 posts
A loose crowd of people walking around the inside of Detroit's Eastern Market.
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  • Economic Development

What Midwest Industrial Communities can Teach about Managing Economic Change

  • John C. Austin
  • January 20, 2023
With a great convergence on both sides of the Atlantic around the urgent need to diminish geographic economic disparities and opportunity gaps — particularly those between thriving global city regions and struggling communities in industrial heartlands – there are growing efforts to learn from each other.
Illustration by Adam Voorhes and Robin Finlay.
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  • Civic Life

How America Is Putting Itself Back Together

  • James Fallows
  • February 22, 2016
Most people in the U.S. believe their country is going to hell. But they’re wrong. What a three-year journey by single-engine plane reveals about reinvention and renewal.
Downtown Columbus, Mississippi, on a visit not long ago (James Fallows / The Atlantic)
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  • Economic Development

A Song of America’s Downtowns

  • James Fallows
  • April 22, 2014
A heartening surprise of our travel so far: the breadth, seriousness, and—in some places—success of the effort to revitalize small-town downtowns. Or, what 3 programmers from Uzbekistan taught us about America.
The WPA-era historic Redlands City Hall, now a police station, in Southern California. That's the base of an enormous flagpole at the right. Photo, yesterday, by Deborah Fallows.
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  • Arts

On the Limits, but Also the Power, of Local Narratives

  • James Fallows
  • December 20, 2013
The stories cities tell about themselves, and the difference that makes.
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  • Economic Development

The Question We Keep Running Into: What Turns a Town Around?

  • James Fallows
  • October 13, 2013
Plus, a nationwide golden age of beer.
Esri Map of Sioux Falls
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  • Economic Development

What ‘Fringe City’ Status Means for a Community’s Look and Feel

  • James Fallows
  • September 14, 2013
Sioux Falls: If you can make it there ...
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  • Civic Life

American Futures: Grand Finale Holland-Palooza

  • James Fallows
  • September 3, 2013
A small arena in which many dramas are being played out.
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  • Economic Development

The Next Lesson From Holland: Why Local Money Matters

  • James Fallows
  • September 2, 2013
In an age of globalized companies and relentless focus on "shareholder value," a reminder of what local ownership can mean.
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  • Education

The Surprising News From One Small Town About Immigration Reform

  • James Fallows
  • September 1, 2013
In a place as unlike Miami, New York, or L.A. as you can imagine, America's unsettled immigration policy has a profound effect.
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  • Economic Development

Holland: Where Things Go After the Recycling Bin

  • James Fallows
  • August 18, 2013
Holland makes, the world takes -- and Holland recycles too.
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  • Civic Life

Giant Lawn Machinery Everywhere: This Actually Is a Thing

  • James Fallows
  • August 18, 2013
Industrialization increases productivity. Sort of.
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  • Language

Thanks Much! On the Geography of Language

  • Deborah Fallows
  • August 16, 2013
"Is this your guys's stuff?" And other linguistic markers.
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  • Economic Development

Holland, ‘Snowmelt,’ ‘Patient Capital,’ and the Revival of Downtown

  • James Fallows
  • August 15, 2013
"I have the best location in all of Western Michigan!"
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  • Travel

What ARE Those Weirdo Midwestern Pond-Pools? And Other Aerial Arcana

  • James Fallows
  • August 13, 2013
One mystery solved, many to go.
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  • Civic Life

Holland and the Theory of Serial Reportage

  • James Fallows
  • August 12, 2013
Approximating reality, post by post by post.
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  • Economic Development

Welcome to Holland

  • James Fallows
  • August 10, 2013
And so it begins.

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