Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The economic forces that built American cities have disappeared. These fundamental economic changes left in their wake two types ...

They are some of the many regions that share distinct characteristics and make the US so diverse. The United States can be divided and subdivided into countless regions, each sharing a unique set of ...

Rust Belt. Sun Belt. Bible Belt. Grain Belt. Barbecue Belt. Beltway. The United States it may be, but in reality, America is a patchwork of regions. And now these terms and others, which evolved from ...

Listen as Rebecca Fannin, Journalist and Author of 4 books, and Rosemary Coates, Executive Director of the Reshoring Institute, discuss the rise of high-tech industries in the American Rust Belt.

A previous version of this story incorrectly cited a statistic provided by Syracuse real-estate agent James Burnham. Here’s a puzzle: Name two Rust Belt cities with ties to Joe Biden where home prices ...

Former President Donald Trump is hardening his stranglehold on Iowa, sparking a fresh round of questions about President Biden’s appeal across middle America and Rust Belt states that will decide his ...

Introduction: Cities and the Postindustrial Imagination -- The Roots of Postindustrialism -- Forging Growth Partnerships -- Postindustrialism and Its Critics -- The New Geography of Downtown -- Spaces ...

Note to the national political press corps: Enough with the Rust Belt. The term’s implication of exhaustion and decay may have fit the Great Lakes and industrial Midwest in the 1970s and ‘80s. I ...

The economic forces that built American cities have disappeared. These fundamental economic changes left in their wake two types of places — those that adapted and those that did not. What caused them ...