Under the Big Dome
How the now-defunct Civic Arena buried Pittsburgh's "Little Harlem."
Lost and Gain
An excerpt from "Life Sentences: Writings from Inside an American Prison."
Garfield Park: Perspectives
An excerpt from "The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook."
The Afterlives of the 1933 Century of Progress Homes
They were built to demonstrate the promise of home technology for the World's Fair. What happened to them?
How to Integrate a Chicago Neighborhood
In three (not so) easy steps.
A Conversation with Mothers/Men Against Senseless Killing
Kirsten Ginzky interviews the group's founder for Belt Publishing's "Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook."
Rebel Girl of West Ridge
From the Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook.
The Packard Presence in Columbus
Walking around Columbus, Ohio, the influence of Frank Packard's architecture is everywhere you look.
Introduction: “This City is Killing Me”
The introduction to a new book on "community trauma and toxic stress in urban America."
Inside the St. Louis Rent Strike of 1969
“It touched everybody all over the country who lived in public housing.” [From "The St. Louis Anthology"]
Minneapolis by Segway
"There was always a sense of something missing, a story still jumbled and incomplete..." From "Under Purple Skies: The Minneapolis Anthology."
The Art of Labor
A tour of Milwaukee's conflicted Grohmann Museum. From "The Milwaukee Anthology."