Where Walkable Encounters Affordable: Collingswood, N.J

Once largely blue collar, the 1.9-square-mile borough suffered during the 1980s and early ’90s from its proximity to Camden just to the west, and the exodus of businesses to malls. But the community has managed a self-reinvention — Nowadays, the borough is seeking to capitalize on mass transit...

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