Civics and Culture

Some 100 University District residents and employees attended a new community forum on Tuesday night, which seeks to revitalize the neighborhood's vision for its...

Second in an illustrated series about place-decoding from the South of France. Place Decoding: Moving Beyond the Directed Experience Sensing the city is a personal experience owned by...

  Two girls are getting on at southbound Dearborn, early college maybe, coming aboard in handfuls, pulling their luggage behind and beside them. Together they...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW764dXEI_8 The history of racism in cities and development persists today even though red lining and racist covenants on property are no longer legal.

Freshly painted parklet goodness, that's what we spotted a few weeks ago. We got curious about these alien markings in the street and decided...

I help a young black American family with the wheelchair seat at Fifth and Jackson. He's carrying laundry in tattered oversized Target plastic shopping...

Editor's Note: The Urbanist will be meeting up at this event next week instead of holding a regular working meeting at Roy Street Coffee...

So much of what we as urban Indians do is stymied by study and data. In the 19th Century it was the Indian Agents and...