Magazine
Issue 03: Religion and cities
October 2003
Who chooses to live at the cutting edge in American communities? What images come up? The Mexican immigrants who transformed Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood in the 1950s? The young hippie families who bought into Jim Rouse’s dream of a racially and economically integrated new town in Columbia, MD in the 1960s? In this issue we look at an equally important group on the leading edge of urban and suburban settlement patterns and politics: people of strong faith.
Features
- In the Way of the Prophet
Ideologies and Institutions in Dearborn, Michigan, America’s Muslim Capitol
- Organizing like Jesus
The Politics of Faith-Based Community Organizing
- God’s Green Earth
Christianity and the Environmental Movement
- Commanded to Stay
Why the Lubavitcher Jews Still Live in Crown Heights
- Gods of The Metropolis
The Rise and Decline of the Black Independent Church
Departments
- PlanningAbout Face: How Social Capital Transformed Chattanooga
How businesspeople and church-goers built enough social capital to revitalize the most polluted city in the country.
- HousingWhat’s Wrong with English Woods?
The Story of One Community, a Wrecking Ball and the Future of Low-Income Housing
- Governance: Reclaiming the Grid
Portland’s City Repair
- EducationUnconstitutional Schools
- Architecture: Big Bad Buildings
The Vanishing Legacy of Minoru Yamasaki
Etcetera
- Last ExitKrispy Kreme Steps Into History
(With Messy Results)
- ReviewsMr. Personality
Revisiting Giuliani’s Legacy
