Issue 17: Art

Winter 2007

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?
  by Jesse Hicks
• Art Company, Inc.
  The history that once defined Pittsburgh and the questions that nearly every Rust Belt city currently faces
  by Matthew Newton
• Slouching Toward Utopia
  Marketing, industry, faith and folly in the United States' most (in)famous planned communities
  by Greg Presto

Departments

• DispatchesThe Tijuana Approach
  Teddy Cruz's plan to market slum living
  by Peter Crimmins
• DispatchesLong Division
  Why are Americans still denied a fair shake when it comes to buying or renting a home?
  by Brentin Mock
• DispatchesQuality of Life
  Can Midtown Manhattan's Community Court Project revamp a historically unkempt (and notorious) neighborhood?
  by Matt Stroud
• DispatchesThe Other Bourbon
  On Frenchman Street, music thrives
  by Mike Sabel
• DispatchesRacing Time
  Opportunism, the environment and Beijing's tireless march toward 2008
  by Pooja Shah
• DispatchesOusted
  Artists, musicians and minorities are pushed away from the bustling neighborhoods they helped create.
  by Casey Jarman

Etcetera

• Urban HistorianAsk an Urban Historian: American West
  by Carl Abbott
• City HallSprawling Forward
  An Interview with Atlanta's Honorable Shirley Franklin
  by Robbie Whelan
• Fifteen Minutes withStephen Wiltshire
  by Staff
• ReviewsBreaking Down the Border
  The U.S.-Mexico border zone and beyond
  by Mariana Mogilevich