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Old cars piled up under a bridge overpass.

New York: The Invention of an Imaginary City

How nostalgic fantasies about the “authentic” New York City obscure the real-world place.

by Yasmin Nair via Current Affairs on June 13, 2021

Cleo Davis and Kayin Talton Davis are artists and activists who have made it their mission to preserve and celebrate African American history in Portland. Here, their daughter, Ifetayo Davis, stands with her father and sisters outside their home.

Oregon Once Legally Banned Black People. Has the State Reconciled its Racist Past?

Oregon became ground zero of America’s racial reckoning protests last summer. But activists say it doesn’t know its own history.

by Nina Strochlic via Process: A Blog for American History on March 8, 2021

The Long Reinvention of the South Bronx

Peter L'Official on the Mythologies Behind Urban Renewal.

by Peter L'Official via Literary Hub on August 3, 2020

Jane Jacobs vs. The Power Brokers

How the patron saint of progressive urban planning’s ideas and ideals were implemented – and corrupted.

by Sarah Mirk via The Nib on December 6, 2019

America’s Formerly Redlined Neighborhoods Have Changed. So Must Solutions to Rectify Them

Are New Deal-era redlining maps still the best available tools for understanding the racial wealth gap?

by Andre M. Perry, David Harshbarger via Brookings on October 14, 2019

A rent strike in Harlem, New York City, September 1919.

The Fight for Rent Control

In the early twentieth century, immigrant tenant organizers made rent control laws a reality. Today, working-class New Yorkers still fight for housing justice.

by Daniel Wortel-London via Dissent on June 5, 2019

Privatizing the Public City

Oakland’s lopsided boom.

by Mitchell Schwarzer via Places Journal on May 1, 2019

‘They Was Killing Black People’: A Century-Old Race Massacre Still Haunts Tulsa

Even as Black Wall Street gentrifies, unresolved questions remain about one of the worst episodes of racial violence in U.S. history.

by DaNeen L. Brown via Washington Post on September 28, 2018

The Value of Farmland: Rural Gentrification and the Movement to Stop Sprawl

Rapidly rising metropolitan land value can mean "striking gold" for some landowners while threatening the livelihood of others.

by Angela Hope Stiefbold via The Metropole on September 12, 2018

The Factory That Oreos Built

A new owner for the New York City landmark offers a tasty opportunity to recap a crème-filled history.

by Katherine Martinelli via Smithsonian on May 21, 2018

Redlining and Gentrification

Exploring the deep connections between redlining, gentrification, and exclusion in San Francisco.

via Urban Displacement Project on April 25, 2018

A New Kind Of City Tour Shows The History Of Racist Housing Policy

Redlining tours explain how policies designed to keep minorities out of certain areas shaped the urban landscapes we see today.

by Adele Peters via Fast Company on April 23, 2018

The Racist History of Portland, the Whitest City in America

It’s known as a modern-day hub of progressivism, but its past is one of exclusion.

by Alana Semuels via The Atlantic on July 22, 2016

A moving truck on cinder blocks.

How Progressives Froze the American Dream

The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.

by Yoni Appelbaum via The Atlantic on February 10, 2025

The entrance of Fischer Bros, a Jewish grocery store, with a line of people going out the door.

The Rise of the Jewish Grocer

From kosher butchers, fruit peddlers, and herring dealers on the Lower East Side to supermarket innovators across the country

by Jenna Weissman Joselit via Tablet on February 3, 2025

Eroticize the Hood

A new book revamps Newark's reputation as unsexy, violent, destitute, defiantly declaring it “a place of desire, love, eroticism, community, and resistance.”

by José Sanchez via n+1 on October 8, 2024

Read Another Book

The Power Broker leaves us ill-equipped to understand or confront the struggles that face the city today.

by Henry Grabar via Slate on September 16, 2024

Still from Midnight Cowboy of a man with a gun in Times Square.

How the Movies Captured Times Square’s Grimy Golden Age

Times Square’s decline can be dated to the Depression, but it wasn’t until the 1970s that the bottom fell out.

by Nathaniel Rich via Current [The Criterion Collection] on July 25, 2024

Collage of Stop Cop City protestors and Coca Cola products.

No Atlanta Way

Stop Cop City meets the establishment.

by Sam Worley via The Drift on June 28, 2024

A black and white image of Black farmers on a road with farming vehicles.

Land Theft: The Alarming Racial Wealth Gap in America Today

Brea Baker on Black land ownership, historical injustice, and the hope for Black Americans to own more than one percent of the land.

by Brea Baker via Literary Hub on June 20, 2024

A series of headshots of the members of R.E.M..

Was It Cooler Back Then?

A search for the memory of R.E.M. in Athens, Georgia.

by Benjamin Hedin via Oxford American on December 5, 2023

A drawing of a family tree of white rappers connecting Eminem and Macklemore.

A Brief Cultural History of the White Rapper

Why do they exist? Where did they come from? Can they be defended? The most pressing questions, answered.

by Alex Skopic via Current Affairs on November 29, 2023

Residents seek higher ground on the roof of a home as floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina cover the streets on Tuesday, August 30, 2005 in New Orleans

How Hurricane Katrina Changed Disaster Preparedness

Hurricane Katrina exposed deep inequities in federal disaster response. "We never felt so cut off in all our lives."

by Yasmin Garaad via Scalawag on November 16, 2023

Puff Daddy performs at his annual White Party.

Hip-Hop’s Midlife Slump

It’s been 25 years since Puff Daddy went to the Hamptons. What’s changed?

by Xochitl Gonzalez via The Atlantic on July 3, 2023

A collage shows a white hand segregating Black Americans.

No Breakthrough in Sight

More than fifty years after the Fair Housing Act, inequality and segregation persists. What went wrong?

by Kaila Philo via The Baffler on May 9, 2023

A U.S. Navy training exercise on a beach in Vieques, Puerto Rico.

"I Thought They’d Kill Us": How The US Navy Devastated a Tiny Puerto Rican Island

For decades, the military fired explosives on Vieques. The US citizens who live there still face the consequences.

by Wilfred Chan via The Guardian on May 1, 2023

64 East 7th Street, New York City, 2022.

The Parsonage

An unprepossessing townhouse in the East Village has been central to a series of distinctive events in New York City history.

by David Hajdu via Places Journal on April 1, 2023

Rats in a garden.

New York’s Rats Have Already Won

I thought having a rat czar would be an easy win for the city. I was wrong.

by Xochitl Gonzalez via The Atlantic on March 2, 2023

Collage of people and water.

America’s Blueprint For Urban Inequity Was Drawn in Philly. Where Do We Go From Here?

From a bus line named Jim Crow to racial violence at public parks, racism shaped Philadelphia. Can we imagine a more equitable city?

by Layla A. Jones, Dain Saint via Philadelphia Inquirer on December 6, 2022

Redlining map from the 1930s

The Tyranny Of The Map: Rethinking Redlining

In trying to understand one of the key aspects of structural racism, have we constructed a new moralistic story that obscures more than it illuminates?

by Robert Gioielli via The Metropole on November 3, 2022

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