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Issue 17: Art

Winter 2007

Quality of living is in question. In this issue: What rustbelt cities can learn from a former steel town’s struggle to retain youth;  Can a Community Court project revamp a historically unkempt neighborhood?; Why are many Americans still denied a fair shake when it comes to buying or renting homes?; One man’s plan to market slum living.

Features

  • The Architecture of Memory: 9/11 and the litany against forgetting
    Six-plus years after September 11, 2001, the memorials in New York and Washington are finally taking shape. But Shanksville, where Flight 93 crash-landed in rural Pennsylvania, is only a naked field. How will that field look to future generations?
  • Art Company, Inc.
    The history that once defined Pittsburgh and the questions that nearly every Rust Belt city currently faces
  • Slouching Toward Utopia
    Marketing, industry, faith and folly in the United States’ most (in)famous planned communities

Departments

  • The Tijuana Approach
    Teddy Cruz’s plan to market slum living
  • Long Division
    Why are Americans still denied a fair shake when it comes to buying or renting a home?
  • Quality of Life
    Can Midtown Manhattan’s Community Court Project revamp a historically unkempt (and notorious) neighborhood?
  • The Other Bourbon
    On Frenchman Street, music thrives
  • Racing Time
    Opportunism, the environment and Beijing’s tireless march toward 2008
  • Ousted
    Artists, musicians and minorities are pushed away from the bustling neighborhoods they helped create.

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