On The Redlining Bus Tour In Milwaukee, WI
By Lauren Sieben On a Saturday morning in early February, with six inches of snow covering the ground and temperatures [...]
Passive, Poor and White? What The Media Keeps Getting Wrong About Appalachia.
By Elizabeth Catte, via The Guardian and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project To satisfy an elitist, narrative fetish about ‘Trump [...]
Can You Have Redevelopment Without Gentrification? Some In The Walnut Hills Neighborhood Of Cincinnati Say Yes.
By Hillary Copsey Walnut Hills, a neighborhood inside Cincinnati’s urban core, is having a big year. After the community suffered [...]
Richard Florida Can’t Let Go Of His Creative Class Theory. His Reputation Depends On It.
By Frank Bures Photo by Garrett MacLean When Richard Florida’s new book came out earlier this year, I saw some [...]
In Today’s Ohio, ‘Home Rule’ Is Not About Cities Being Self-Governed; It’s Cover For State Officials Moving Economic Growth To The Exurbs
By Tom Bier Photo by Maddie McGarvey In my new book, Housing Dynamics in Northeast Ohio: Setting the Stage for [...]
Safe In Buffalo, NY, Syrian Refugees Are Still Looking For Peace
Fatima Darwish El Nashef needed air, so she left her apartment and strolled through the Elmwood Village neighborhood of Buffalo. She had been feeling like a zombie, adjusting to a new home while constantly thinking about the hell she had left behind in Syria.
Eminent Domain, Ruined Farmland, Crony Capitalism: Racine County Braces For Foxconn
Apple Holler is an 80-acre pick-your-own orchard destination just off of Interstate 94 in Sturtevant, Wisconsin, about midpoint on the main highway connecting Milwaukee and Chicago’s northern suburbs.
Radical Suburbs by Amanda Kolson Hurley, A New Book from Belt Publishing forthcoming in 2019
We all think we know what the suburbs are like: affluent, conservative, orderly, and a bit dull. To describe a [...]
The Last, First Miami Speakers
The story of the Miami language over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is one of fracture and dissolution. In this it is not unique among Native languages—or cultures. In fact, it’s difficult to talk about one without the other.
The Urban Rural
When I have written about Roseland it is usually about tragedy and trauma as the result of generations of neglect. When I tell white people where I live, their response always begins with a recollection
Beyond ‘White Flight’
What the history of one Cleveland neighborhood can teach us about race and housing inequality.
Travel Ban, On Hold, Puts Ohio’s Resettlement Agencies in Danger
In addition to leaving thousands stranded in dangerous refugee camps overseas, the current battle over immigration also has a withering effect on resettlement programs here in the United States.