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Urban Nation | Ben Adler | Dec 28th, 2008 | Topic: Urban Nation | Region: Urban Nation | Cities: New York, Urban Nation |
A holiday visit to my grandmother’s retirement community begs the question: What will happen to those 1970’s developments? (
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Dave Steele | Mar 26th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: Central | Cities: Milwaukee |
An uproar over a statue of the 1970s TV icon says more about its city than any piece of public art could. (
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Jeffrey Hill | Dec 28th, 2007 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Miami |
It’s every angry teenager’s dream to move to New York City. Watching Annie Hall, listening to the Ramones, buying a cordoruy suit ... it’s all about romance until they pick up a free Apartment shopper’s guide and find out that it
costs an average of 2000 dollars to rent a closet with bad wiring and a malfunctioning water heater. What happened to the dream of living shoulder-to-shoulder with America’s undiscovered twenty-somethings? What about all those movies where shaggy-haired poets and part-time bartenders have flats with hard-wood floors and track lighting? Why does grandma pay 400 dollars a month for her apartment? She lives next-door to Moby, for chrissakes! (
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