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853 map of San Francisco by the U. S. Coast Survey

Demolishing the California Dream: How San Francisco Planned Its Own Housing Crisis

Today's housing crisis in San Francisco originates from zoning laws that segregated racial groups and income levels.

by Hunter Oatman-Stanford via Collectors Weekly on September 21, 2018

A mother pushes a child, on a swing at the Cabrini-Green public housing project in Chicago, May 28, 1981.

The 1992 Horror Film That Made a Monster Out of a Chicago Housing Project

In Candyman, the notorious Cabrini-Green complex is haunted by urban myths and racial paranoia.

by Ben Austen via Zócalo Public Square on August 17, 2018

The Complicated Fight Over Walt Whitman's Sole Surviving NYC Home

A somewhat neglected vinyl-sided house is now at the center of a literary legacy battle.

by Jim O'Grady via Gothamist on July 26, 2018

This Man is an Island

How the Key West we know today became a reflection of one man’s campy sense of style.

by Michael Adno via The Bitter Southerner on July 11, 2018

Protesters holding an Occupy Wall St banner.

How Centuries of Protest Shaped New York City

A new book traces the “citymaking process” of riots and rebellions since the era of Dutch colonization to the present.

by Don Mitchell, Mimi Kirk via CityLab on May 24, 2018

What Is Loitering, Really?

America’s laws against lingering have roots in Medieval England. The goal has always been to keep anyone “out of place” away.

by Ariel Aberg-Riger via CityLab on May 21, 2018

Home Values Remain Low in Vast Majority of Formerly Redlined Neighborhoods

The long legacy of structural racism in the New Deal-era housing market.

by Sarah Mikhitarian via Zillow Research on April 25, 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

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

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

Bring the Noize

A search for the source of Southern hip-hop’s magic will always lead you to three men from Atlanta, known to the world as Organized Noize.

by Joycelyn Wilson via The Bitter Southerner on June 27, 2017

The Black Panthers and Young Patriots at a press conference.

The Panthers and the Patriots

The story of how a group of poor whites in Chicago united with the Black Panthers to fight racism and capitalism.

by Michael McCanne via Jacobin on May 19, 2017

Barbering for Freedom

Segregation, separatism, and the history of black barbershops.

by Elias Rodriques via n+1 on September 28, 2015

Obama standing with his official presidential portrait.

There Goes the Neighborhood

The Obama library lands on Chicago.

by Rick Perlstein via The Baffler on July 1, 2015

A bearded man dressed as a lumberjack with an axe resting on his shoulder.

Lumbersexuality and Its Discontents

One hundred years ago, a crisis in urban masculinity created the lumberjack aesthetic. Now it's making a comeback.

by Willa Brown via The Atlantic on December 10, 2014

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