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.
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,.
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.
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.
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.
Bill O'Reilly is actually from the original Levittown? What is this, a bad episode of West Wing?
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.
Shorter residents of luxury Brooklyn Heights condos: "We love the idea of affordable housing, but if it affects our view, send them to Newark."
