Garrett Dash Nelson

History shows that cities and towns have been poor stewards of what makes them special.

What can a visualization of population growth in cities and towns in the Northeast tell us about different moments in the region's economic geography?

Three books offer views of the shift from public planning to neoliberal privatization, and emphasize the need to reclaim planning in the public interest.

Long after the end of explicit discrimination in the housing market, the federal government continued to manage risk for capital, perpetuating inequality.

Edward Bellamy's utopia influenced a generation of urban planners.

In its original concept, the Appalachian Trail was a wildly ambitious plan to reorganize the economic geography of the eastern United States.

How the New England town became the mythical landscape of American democracy.

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