This is a really interesting article on Houston. Probably the most car-centric city and certainly the most anti-zoning, given that it doesn't have any, city in the nation, Houston is.
No. That's the point Jeff Turrentine makes in critiquing the new Joel Kotkin book. Suburban sprawl is about a serious of structural choices made by American policymakers that have failed.
Interesting piece on one of the less discussed problems with the incredible expansion of capital in the cities and thus rapidly rising prices for residents, which is the eviction of.
The Guardian has been running an interesting set of stories on world cities. This one highlights Potosí, the Bolivian silver city I have been utterly fascinated by ever since visiting.
Above: The New Deal experimental town of Greendale, Wisconsin Steven Conn's smart, witty, and even funny book is an excellent overview of how a deep mistrust of cities and strong.
Michael Kimmelman on the glory of public squares, which we people desperately need and adore when they have them. Using New York, Palestine, and Berlin as examples, Kimmelman explores the.
Because that's what the government intended after World War II: “We have a national myth that the reason our metropolitan areas are segregated is for informal reasons—private prejudice, differences in.
Using Henry George's critique of inequality in the first Gilded Age as a jumping off point, Elizabeth Murphy has a very interesting essay considering how the new luxury towers for.
