By 2030, Chicago’s Black population will have decreased by half a million people in 50 years.
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Sacrificed for the Super Bowl: The Wiping Out of an Atlanta Neighborhood
Thirty years ago, the entire community of Lightning was destroyed to build the Georgia Dome. This oral history, told by displaced residents, compiles memories of a long-gone neighborhood.
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Lightning, Struck: How an Atlanta Neighborhood Died on the Altar of Super Bowl Dreams
Thirty years ago, the entire community of Lightning, in Atlanta’s west side, was destroyed to build the Georgia Dome. This oral history, told by the residents that were displaced, compiles the stories and memories of a long-gone neighborhood.
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Dorm Living for Adults
The new Common co-living company isn’t as communal is it pretends.
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Is This the Most Crowded Island in the World? (And Why That Question Matters)
An amateur geographer travels to an undocumented island off the coast of Haiti after stumbling upon it on Google Earth.
Posted inBooks, Current Events, Nonfiction
An Urban Planner Against the Developer Presidency
An urban planner examines the worldview of high-stakes commercial real estate developers, with a special focus on our new developer-in-chief.
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An Urban Planner Against the Developer Presidency
An urban planner examines the worldview of high-stakes commercial real estate developers, with a special focus on our new developer-in-chief.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
New York City’s Final Frontier: Underground
What lays beneath New York City affects life above ground. One team is mapping the city’s below-ground infrastructure.
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In South Korea, Gentrification Goes Global
Factory workers and artists struggle to keep their work spaces in this Seoul neighborhood.
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They Call It Canaan
In the aftermath of disaster, as new communities thousands-strong coalesce in the countryside around Port-au-Prince, Haitians ask: what makes a city?