Magazine
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
- DispatchesThe Tijuana Approach
Teddy Cruz’s plan to market slum living
- DispatchesLong Division
Why are Americans still denied a fair shake when it comes to buying or renting a home?
- DispatchesQuality of Life
Can Midtown Manhattan’s Community Court Project revamp a historically unkempt (and notorious) neighborhood?
- DispatchesThe Other Bourbon
On Frenchman Street, music thrives
- DispatchesRacing Time
Opportunism, the environment and Beijing’s tireless march toward 2008
- DispatchesOusted
Artists, musicians and minorities are pushed away from the bustling neighborhoods they helped create.
Etcetera
- Urban HistorianAsk an Urban Historian: American West
- City HallSprawling Forward
An Interview with Atlanta’s Honorable Shirley Franklin
- Fifteen Minutes withStephen Wiltshire
- ReviewsBreaking Down the Border
The U.S.-Mexico border zone and beyond
