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Was the Automotive Era a Terrible Mistake?

For a century, we’ve loved our cars. They haven’t loved us back.
by Nathan Heller via The New Yorker on July 22, 2019

Americans Shouldn’t Have to Drive, but the Law Insists on It

The automobile took over because the legal system helped squeeze out the alternatives.
by Gregory H. Shill via The Atlantic on July 9, 2019
Sunbathers and picnickers in Central Park.

How Central Park’s Complex History Played Into the Case Against the 'Central Park Five'

The furor that erupted throughout New York City cannot be disentangled from the long history of the urban oasis.
by Maddie Burakoff via Smithsonian on May 31, 2019

Introducing the Brand-New Historic District

A company hopes its construction of a Historic District will satisfy those who are upset with its demolition of historic sites.
by Jeremiah Budin via The New Yorker on May 9, 2019

Privatizing the Public City

Oakland’s lopsided boom.
by Mitchell Schwarzer via Places Journal on May 1, 2019

Historical Public Transit Systems vs. Their Modern Equivalents

Interactive maps of public transit, then and now.
by Jake Berman via The Guardian on April 3, 2019

The Public Costs of Private Growth

Amazon, the Great Depression, and the fiscal history #HQ2 supporters miss.
by Daniel Wortel-London via The Metropole on January 28, 2019
Children looking at an architectural model of a city.

Imagining a Past Future: Photographs from the Oakland Redevelopment Agency

City planner John B. Williams — and the photographic archive he commissioned — give us the opportunity to complicate received stories of failed urban renewal.
by Moriah Ulinskas via Places Journal on January 22, 2019
Formal portrait photo of Harland Bartholomew in suit and tie

One Man Zoned Huge Swaths of Our Region for Sprawl, Cars, and Exclusion

Bartholomew’s legacy demonstrates with particular clarity that planning is never truly neutral; value judgments are always embedded in engineers' objectives.
by Ben Ross via Greater Greater Washington on January 8, 2019

Did the Golden Age of Department Stores Bring Us Together?

What is now an object of nostalgia was once a symbol of soulless corporate creep.
by Stephen Eide via The American Conservative on December 21, 2018

Creating Disneyland Was Like Building a Brand New City

Even Magic Kingdoms need urban planners.
by Jessica Leigh Hester via Atlas Obscura on September 19, 2018

The City Born in a Day

The bizarre origin story of the surprisingly exceptional Oklahoma City, in a government-sanctioned raid called the Land Run.
by Sam Anderson via Intelligencer on August 17, 2018

From Food Deserts to Supermarket Redlining

Connecting the dots between discriminatory housing policies in the 1930s and urban food insecurity today.
by Jerry Shannon via Atlanta Studies on August 14, 2018

Three Eras of Environmental Concern

In the late 19th and early 20th century, talk about “the environment” had little of its later coherence or political meaning.
by Christopher Sellers via Modern American History on July 27, 2018
Map of New York City.

Here Grows New York City

An animation of the historical trends of New York's growth since its founding.
by Myles Zhang via MylesZhang.org on July 25, 2018

Coming to Terms With Nature

Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters in the ’60s.
by Bill McKibben via The Nation on May 9, 2018

Redlining and Gentrification

Exploring the deep connections between redlining, gentrification, and exclusion in San Francisco.
via Urban Displacement Project on April 25, 2018

Why New York City Stopped Building Subways

Nearly 80 years ago, a construction standstill derailed the subway into its present crisis.
by Jonathan English via CityLab on April 16, 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
Aerial map showing New Orleans and steamboats on the Mississippi River.

How Humans Sank New Orleans

Engineering put the Crescent City below sea level. Now, its future is at risk.
by Richard Campanella via The Atlantic on February 6, 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 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
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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

Amazon or Independence Hall? Development vs. Preservation in the City of Philadelphia

A history of Independence Hall offers an example of how old buildings and open spaces are not always ripe sites for development.
by Whitney Martinko via Hindsights on December 11, 2017

'Housing Is Everybody’s Problem'

The forgotten crusade of Morris Milgram.
by Amanda Kolson Hurley via Places Journal on October 10, 2017

The Disturbing History of the Suburbs

Redlining: the racist housing policy from the Jim Crow era that still affects us today.
via Adam Ruins Everything on October 4, 2017

'The City Needed Them Out'

When wealthy New Yorkers decided to build Central Park, they eliminated an egalitarian community known as Seneca Village.
by Ariel Aberg-Riger via CityLab on October 2, 2017
Hurricane Irma in Miami.
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The Cost of Coastal Capitalism: How Greedy Developers Left Miami Ripe for Destruction

Building on vulnerable coastlines isn't about ignorance or hubris — it's about profit.
by Andrew W. Kahrl via Made By History on September 12, 2017

The Beauty of Public Restrooms

A collection of images of early 20th-century public bathrooms.
by John F. Ptak via JF Ptak Science Books on September 1, 2017
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