Civics and Culture

https://youtu.be/d9vDcfH03gs Dave Amos charts the American change from connected grids to the rise of cul-de-sacs, and what’s now being done to counteract their pitfalls.

Community engagement continues to inform design plans for new developments at 23rd and Union in the Central District Last summer more than 200 volunteers participated...

https://youtu.be/vWhYlu7ZfYM In this Vox episode of Almanac, Phil Edwards explains why so many suburbs look the same. Principally, the advent of federal financing, the cul-de-sac,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hqLo4J6mrQ Dave Amos looks at Walt Disney's unrealized tomorrow city plans (known as "Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow" or "EPCOT"), which were largely Modernist delusions...

https://youtu.be/bxw2P7WbRKE What does it mean to be urbanized? What does living in a city require of us in terms of social engagement, and to what...

Workie Wubushet, owner of Saba Ethiopian Cuisine, knew her campaign to save the restaurant she'd owned for nearly 20 years was over when the...

Never in a million years. That's what I thought when we applied for this thing a year ago. A pipe dream. You apply for...

https://youtu.be/ddiOJLuu2mo Photos captured by the during the Progressive Era of children working and their dire conditions, particularly in cities, led to strong limits on child...