Richey Piiparinen at Rust Wire has a really interesting article about reverse gentrification in Cleveland. Basically, in the Rust Belt resident patterns are flipping normal patterns. With a declining population and huge home vacancy rates, African-Americans are leaving Cleveland for the suburbs because they see...
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The number of trees in an urban neighborhood proves a very strong determinant of the area's income level. This means you can judge income inequality in satellite images.
Most of us would probably agree that we really screwed up our cities in the 1950s and 1960s. Between uncontrolled suburbanization, urban renewal, the destruction of public transportation, white flight,.
And you thought I was going to write about Leno.... Sarah Goodyear has a nice piece at the Atlantic about the invention of jaywalking. Essentially, cars were seen as murderous killers in the early 20th century. States and municipalities passed a series of laws placing...
I think it's great that Los Angeles is creating a new wetland in south Los Angeles. Part of a 9 acre park, this 4.5 acre wetland will bring much needed.
I don't agree with all of Yglesias' analysis here on cities regulating food trucks out of business, but the overall point is fairly sound. In the comment section for my.
This is an interesting piece at Rustwire on Cleveland's constant attempts to rebrand itself over the past 40 years. As industry left the city, Cleveland suffered an identity crisis as real as its economic crisis and continues to struggle with both today. The city has...
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Michael Kimmelman has a very interesting piece in the Times on taking parking lots seriously as architectural structures and community spaces. There is much to agree with here. The gigantic.
IKEA is proposing to build an entire neighborhood in east London. It's hard to see what could go wrong with giving this kind of control to a company whose success is based upon yuppie faddism, with a bad labor record, and stores with a conformist...
Outstanding Louise Mozingo op-ed on how office parks contribute to sprawl and how any rethinking of urban spaces needs to place limitations on the growth of "pastoral capitalism," as she.
Read of the day is John Sullivan's piece on African-Americans leaving northern cities and moving to southern suburbs, which might sound like a return to southern roots except with middle-class.