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Public Transportation as Urban Development: A Mississippi Case Study
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[Unedited] Grace Lee Boggs with Krista Tippett
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Grace Lee Boggs was a philosopher and a civil rights leader and a founder of the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center. She authored the book “Living for Change: An Autobiography.” This interview is edited...
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Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.When Detroit filed for bankruptcy in July 2013, it was the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in American history. The struggling city claimed...
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Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.Every day, 10,000 baby boomers reach the traditional retirement age of 65. But many choose to stay in the workforce part time, or opt to do...
View ArticleBaltimore Activists Fight to Rebuild Freddie Gray's Neighborhood
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.It's been just over a year since 25-year-old Freddie Gray was killed after he was taken into police custody in Baltimore. Now, the block of...
View ArticleThe Life and Legacy of Jane Jacobs
Wednesday marks what would have been the 100th birthday of urban activist Jane Jacobs.Jacobs never went to college, but went on to change the way we think about cities by looking out of her Greenwich...
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Has urban revival caused a crisis of success?
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View Article121 - San Francisco—Stories from the Model City, Part Two
In the late 1930s, during the depths of the Depression, 300 craftspeople came together for two years to build an enormous scale model of the City of San Francisco — a WPA project conceived as a way of...
View Article123- San Francisco—Stories from the Model City, Part Three
In the late 1930s, during the depths of the Depression, 300 craftspeople came together for two years to build an enormous scale model of the City of San Francisco — a WPA project conceived as a way of...
View Article133 - Theaster Gates — Keeping the South Side
The Archive House, The Listening House, The Stony Island Arts Bank, The Dorchester Projects. Theaster Gates is a keeper of Greater Grand Crossing, his neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago. He...
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