One of the themes in the book is the leadership of women in some of the biggest fights in New Orleans, integrating schools, ...

Drawing is deeply intimate, a personal relationship one forms with the “subject.” By working the matter—inscribing the line ...

Queer and Marginalized Histories of Downtown Los Angeles tour took me through many of my old haunts and told a very different ...

Architecture never leads culture; it expresses who we are, when we are. And we’re in the middle of a collapse of 20th century ...

When I started it, I was interested in buses, because not a lot had been written about them as mass transit. They always get overlooked. Rail gets so much attention. I was interested in buses from a ...

Back in 1990, I was asked if I would take the job as director of housing and economic development for Trenton, in a new administration with a seemingly dedicated bright young mayor. I did, and I spent ...

It may shock some people to hear this, but architecture is not urban planning. It is not transportation planning, sociology, political science, or critical geography. However, architecture, new-build ...

In the 1950s, Robert Moses bulldozed a swath of the South Bronx to build the Cross Bronx Expressway, displacing an estimated 60,000 residents and gutting one of the most economically diverse urban ...

Though economists and historians will study the decline of the American economy and the rise of oligarchic capitalism for decades, those who lament the resulting loss of affordable housing and ...

Since the publication of Robert D. Putnam’s Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community in 2000, a growing body of research has focused on the decline of civic and social engagement ...

In 1956, when car ownership and the suburban development that this enabled were just being embraced as American cultural ideals, pioneering urbanist Jane Jacobs wrote that the U.S. was becoming “an ...