Adaptive reuse is reshaping the Lehigh Valley as former steel sites in Allentown, Bethlehem and Easton become new housing, ...

Eddie Melton, the mayor of Gary, Ind., has worked to attract new investment while promoting the narrative of a comeback. It’s ...

The Lehigh Valley cities of Allentown, Bethlehem and Easton, decimated in the 1980s and '90s by steel mill closures, is ...

Deep in Argentina’s rust belt, the decades of duress that have hollowed out the steelmaking port town of Villa Constitucion are everywhere on display.

There's something deeply unsettling about watching a city that once thrived slowly fade away. The American urban landscape is ...

The overall private-sector economy grew by just 181,000 jobs last year, which means that it would have ended up with 577,000 fewer jobs on December 31 than it had on the previous January 1, had health ...

Some cities in the US have been greatly scarred by factory closures and a staggering decrease in population-but they continue ...

At the national level, the Federal Reserve’s own banking data shows the delinquency rate on single-family residential mortgages held by commercial banks rising to 1.78 percent in the third quarter of ...

Photographer brings payphones into focus Wherever Eric Kunsman goes, he searches for payphones. “Felicific Calculus: Technology as a Social Marker of Race, Class & Economics,” an exhibit of Eric ...

Rockford and the Midwest see fewer residents leaving as affordable living and manufacturing jobs drive a surprising population rebound ...

For more than six decades, Canada has seen dramatically falling fertility rates. Countries around the world face the same ...