The city is humanity's laboratory, where people flock to dream, create, build, and rebuild. In his book Triumph of the City, Harvard economist Edward Glaeser observes that to stroll through the world's great cities is "to study nothing less than human progress." Each year, we spotlight the building blocks of that progress -- bold ideas that promise to enrich our cities and economies. You'll find plenty in diverse, surprisingly creative Houston, our 2011 CITY OF THE YEAR which urban theorist Joel Kotkin tips as "one of the world's next great cities." You'll also find these ideas across America:
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