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Cities facing affordable housing challenges are becoming more open to making zoning changes that affect density.

Urban downtowns are navigating a “doom loop” of office vacancy, retail decline and lower transit ridership. Things look both a bit different and somewhat similar in the suburbs.

The numbers are in, and they are big! The Bureau of Economic Analysis released its findings that the arts + creative industries added $1 trillion to the U.S. economy in 2021. Yes, that’s $1 trillion with a \“T\” or 4.4% of GDP. In Michigan, it’s $15.5 billion and 2.7% added to the economy. Does that mean the sector has recovered from COVID? Deb Polich, your "creative impact" host, meets up with Randy Cohen, VP of Research and Policy at Americans for the Arts. Together, they’ll digest the numbers.

Take a peek inside the March issue, on newsstands now.

Album / Aquatic Gardener, Godspeed (GÄD’SPĒD) DC musician Jamal Gray’s latest project is this rich instrumental collection of moody hip-hop beats. Photograph of Musgrove courtesy of UMBC Website / Black Power in DC George Derek Musgrove, a UMBC professor and coauthor of the essential DC book Chocolate City, is behind this en-grossing new resource (blackpowerindc.umbc.edu), which maps important sites of Black activism. It launches February 1. Photograph of Guy Picciotto of the band Rites of Spring courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Podcast / End on End Two appropriately unpolished hosts work ...