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It always felt good to be back in Paris. As his cab made its way down the Boulevard Raspail toward Saint-Germain, Sam was struck once again by the beautiful proportions established by Haussmann in the mid-nineteenth century—the generous width of the principal streets, the human-sized buildings, the magnificent gardens, and the unexpected pocket par

The new Beale Street favors the old one with conscious kitsch of the South. You can eat at the waterfront at Beale Street Landing in Memphis. Development projects promise more tourist attractions and gentrification. And in recent years, with old projects demolished, the push-out goes further. Development is promised again, new businesses, restauran

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For large employers, California has pioneered a second powerful strategy for managing parking, called “parking cash-out.” The California Health and Safety Code requires many businesses that offer free employee parking to give their workers the option of trading that parking space for its cash equivalent. This is an ingenious law, because it is all

These men all moved to California recently, driven by a lust for space that can’t be satisfied by old cities with their tinge of Europe and horse carts and history. There is an ungoverned feel to California’s mountains and deserts and reckless coast.