In-Demand Cities

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Boston is at a crossroads—one that is every bit as transformative as the epic battle between the Brahmin establishment and the emerging Irish political class in the 19th century.

Even on a particularly airless late-summer evening, the appeal of the Bywater, a once-working-class New Orleans neighborhood just downriver from the French Quarter, cuts through the oppressive humidity. 

Portland is a strange land: a place where curbside compost is picked up more frequently than garbage, where the first new bridge over the Willamette River in 40 years doesn't allow private cars, and where the mayor would like to build tiny houses for the homeless on public property.