I know Cleveland fairly well, though I haven't spent much time there in the last few years. Much of the city is obviously a mess. I love the place more than pretty much any other city east of the Mississippi and there is so much...
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The ridiculous attempt to put the Olympics in Boston in 2024 is dying on the vine. Hosting the Olympics is a terrible idea for any city. For a old, cramped,.
Wow: A Really Greater New York. That was the title of the 1911 proposal by an engineer and planner who imagined paving over massive amounts of New York Harbor to.
A reader sent this to me, to which I give thanks. This is the cover of the February 12, 1898 issue of Harper's. Thanks to Google Books, the greatest invention since indoor plumbing. You can buy a print of it here. Or you can buy...
Almost all of our cities are built on top of prexisting waterways that now "flow" under our feet and roads. The water is still largely there but it's subsumed in.
Evidently, raccoons in the city are smarter than rural raccoons because the city teaches them so much, primarily how to get at food. Personally, I fear they will ally with.
OK, no one would really say that Houston is an urban utopia. But this op-ed in the Houston Chronicle actually does make some good points, even if it can be read as a defense of low-density, auto-intensive sprawl that many of us, myself included, reject....
Bill O'Reilly is actually from the original Levittown? What is this, a bad episode of West Wing?
We all know how much white conservatives opposed school busing. The most famous case was in Boston, when Louise Day Hicks became famous saving south Boston from the horrors of.
A post-racial society indeed: Crain's reports on SketchFactor, a racist app made for avoiding "sketchy" neighborhoods, which is the term young white people use to describe places where they don't feel safe because they watched all five seasons of The Wire: SketchFactor, the brainchild of...
Shorter residents of luxury Brooklyn Heights condos: "We love the idea of affordable housing, but if it affects our view, send them to Newark."
This is a fascinating 1967 document from the Department of Housing and Urban Development and a great window into how the Great Society tried to figure out what to do.