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Issue 21: The Digital Divide
Winter 2008
Will the Digital Divide further segregate cities? What’s the connection between New Orleans and Haiti? Is Atlanta’s new BeltLine project the city’s savior? Issue No. 21 of Next American City includes answers to these questions as well as interviews with Sudhir Venkatesh of Freakonomics fame and Joseph Roberts who is revolutionizing New Jersey’s affordable housing. Short pieces about local news Web sites, Reseda, Calif.‘s attempt to renew itself, New York’s bank-branch obsession, and unreasonable telecommuting taxes round out the contents. Cover photo by Paul Silvio and Gallery by Brian Ulrich.
Features
- CommentaryThe 22-Mile Life Preserver
Almost a decade after it was first proposed, the BeltLine still offers promise — or potential pitfalls? — for Atlanta
- The Digital Divide 1
Access to the Internet is dividing urban populations into another group of have’s and have-not’s.
- The Bell Tolls For Municipal Wireless 1
Philadelphia came close to being a “hot” city with free Internet, but it turned out that municipal wi-fi was too good to be true.
- CommentaryBetween a Rock and a Wet Place
Haiti and Louisiana’s Shared History and Dangerous Future
Departments
- IdeasTelecommuting Tax Troubles
- IdeasRethinking The Bodega
- IdeasA Theater Renovation Hopes to Break Reseda’s Free Fall
- IdeasA New Chip off the Old Block
- IdeasNew York’s Other Banking Crisis
- Urban HistorianAsk an Urban Historian
- LeadersFor Richer or For Poorer
An Interview with Sudhir Venkatesh
- LeadersA New, New Jersey
Etcetera
- ReviewsTwo Tales of a City
- ReviewsThe End is Nigh, Again
- ReviewsAnts at the Wheel
- ReviewsMoral Tumbleweeds of the West
