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Voices in Time: Horror Movie Scene-Setting

The author of 'High-Risers' revisits 'Candyman,' in which public housing is the greatest horror of all.

by Ben Austen via Lapham’s Quarterly on March 1, 2018

Roads to Nowhere: How Infrastructure Built on American Inequality

From highways carved through thriving ‘ghettoes’ to walls segregating areas by race, city development has a divisive history.

by Johnny Miller via The Guardian on February 21, 2018

Rat Race

Why are young professionals crazy for marathons?

by Dylan Gottlieb via Public Seminar on February 15, 2018

Even the Dead Could Not Stay

An illustrated history of urban renewal in Roanoke, Virginia.

by Martha Park via CityLab on January 19, 2018

How to Build a Segregated City

How can adjacent neighborhoods in the same city be so drastically unequal?

by Colette Shade via Splinter on January 19, 2018

When the Army Planned for a Fight in U.S. Cities

In 1968, a retired colonel warned that urban insurrections could produce “scenes of destruction approaching those of Stalingrad.”

by Conor Friedersdorf via The Atlantic on January 16, 2018

The Story of an Unrealized Domed City for Minnesota

The Experimental City revisits the plan for a futuristic Minnesota city that would solve urban problems.

by Allison C. Meier via Hyperallergic on January 2, 2018

Rexford Guy Tugwell and the Case for Big Urbanism

New York City’s first planning commissioner lost a bigger battle against Robert Moses than the fight Jane Jacobs won.

by Garrett Dash Nelson via Places Journal on January 1, 2018

Who Segregated America?

For all of its strengths, Richard Rothstein’s new book does not account for the central role capitalism played in segregating America's cities.

by Destin Jenkins via Public Books on December 21, 2017

Masher Menace: When American Women First Confronted Their Sexual Harassers

The #MeToo movement is not the first time women have publicly stood up to sexual harassment.

by Lisa Hix via Collectors Weekly on December 14, 2017

Renewing Inequality

An interactive set of maps documenting the more than 300,000 families displaced by urban renewal projects between 1955 and 1966.

by Robert K. Nelson, Brent Cebul, Justin Madron, Nathaniel Ayers via American Panorama on December 13, 2017

How Redlining Segregated Philadelphia

Decades after civil rights laws overruled policies that starved non-white neighborhoods of investment, deep disparities linger.

by Jake Blumgart via Next City on December 8, 2017

America’s Real Estate Developer in Chief

Donald Trump's rise to power was fueled by the profits of predatory real estate ventures.

by Thomas J. Sugrue via Public Books on November 27, 2017

Law & Order, Philadelphia Style

The city that just elected a civil rights lawyer as D.A. is the same city presided over for years by "Mayor Cop" Frank Rizzo.

by Sara Mayeux, Timothy Lombardo on November 17, 2017

What Do States Have Against Cities, Anyway?

Legislatures regularly interfere with local affairs. The reasons, according to research, will surprise you.

by Alan Ehrenhalt via Governing on November 1, 2017

Old New York, Seen Through a Cab Driver’s Windshield

The people Joseph Rodriguez saw through the windshield in the 1970s and 80s.

by Joseph Rodriguez via Intelligencer on October 27, 2017

Jane Addams’s Crusade Against Victorian “Dancing Girls”

Jane Addams, a leading Victorian-era reformer, believed dance halls were “one of the great pitfalls of the city.”

by Erin Blakemore via JSTOR Daily on October 11, 2017

Police security guarding Confederate monument.

Local Officials Want to Remove Confederate Monuments—but States Won't Let Them

Laws preventing the removal of statues raise questions not only about historical legacy but also about local control and public safety.

by David A. Graham via The Atlantic on August 25, 2017

The Deeper Problem Behind the Sale of a Posh San Francisco Street

The news that a posh San Francisco street was sold for delinquent taxes exposes the deeper issue with America’s local revenue system.

by Brent Cebul via CityLab on August 18, 2017

President Lyndon B. Johnson with members of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, including Otto Kerner.

The 1968 Kerner Report was a Watershed Document on Race in America—and it Did Very Little

After the urban unrest of the Long Hot Summer, a commission was formed.

by Jamil Smith via Timeline on August 18, 2017

How Fast Food Chains Supersized Inequality

Fast food did not just find its way to low-income neighborhoods. It was brought there by the federal government.

by Max Holleran via The New Republic on August 2, 2017

Brian Tochterman on the 'Summer of Hell'

What E.B. White, Mickey Spillane, Death Wish, hip-hop, and the “Summer of Hell” have in common.

by Brian Tochterman, Sarah Cleary via UNC Press Blog on July 21, 2017

How Gotham Gave Us Trump

Ever wonder how a lifelong urbanite can resent cities as much as Donald Trump does? First you have to understand ’70s and ’80s New York.

by Michael Kruse via Politico Magazine on June 30, 2017

How Boston Made Itself Bigger

Maps from 1630 to the present show how the city — once an 800-acre peninsula — grew into what it is today.

by Betsy Mason via National Geographic on June 13, 2017

The Racial Segregation of American Cities Was Anything But Accidental

A housing policy expert explains how federal government policies created the suburbs and the inner city.

by Richard Rothstein, Katie Nodjimbadem via Smithsonian on May 30, 2017

Draining the Swamp: A Guide for Outsiders and Career Politicians

Despite common belief, Washington, D.C. was not built on a swamp.

by Carl Abbott via The Conversation on March 7, 2017

How the Battle for Sunlight Shaped New York City

As the city reached for the sky, those down below had to scramble for daylight.

by Laura Bliss via CityLab on December 18, 2016

Artists' rendering of Cahokia mounds with buildings and people on them.

Finding North America’s Lost Medieval City

Cahokia was bigger than Paris — then it was completely abandoned. I went there to find out why.

by Annalee Newitz via Ars Technica on December 13, 2016

Floyd B. McKissick and Kimp Talley stand in front of a tall sign that reads "Soul City."

Soul City

In the 1960s, civil rights activist Floyd McKissick successfully sold President Nixon on an idea of a black built, black-owned community in North Carolina.

via BackStory on November 17, 2016

Redlining map for Decatur, Illinois

Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America

In the 1930s, the federal government created redlining maps for almost every major U.S. city. Explore those maps and their contexts in a brand new version of this project.

by N. D. B. Connolly, Robert K. Nelson, LaDale Winling, Justin Madron, Todd Michney, Richard Marciano, J. S. Hoffman, Helen C. S. Meier via American Panorama on October 12, 2016

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