The final episode of the Wasted Words podcast for 2008, with Olivia Todd and The City Desk contributors Shek Baker, Leonard Pierce and RJ White discussing predictions for 2008, resolutions for 2009, Old Spice, career advice, apocalyptic visions and many, many other topics.
A couple of months ago, I had to rent a car and drive out to the western part of the state on business, as the company wouldn’t spring for a train ticket. On hour four of my trip, tooling down the interstate, I had the radio set on scan, flipping between the frequencies, looking...
:: Man of Action (1955) Animated plea for urban renewal connected with 1950s efforts to “redevelop” American city centers. (Prelinger Archives) :: Our Urban Future Sometime in 2008, the world will cross an invisible but momentous milestone: the point at which more than half the people on the planet—roughly 3.2 billion human beings—live in...
Though this story focuses upon New York, the same thing is happening in cities across the country. In June the Brookings Institution released a study called “Where Did They Go? The Decline of Middle-Income Neighborhoods in Metropolitan America.” It found that middle-income neighborhoods constituted 58 percent of all urban neighborhoods in 1970, but that...
Gulliver Lane in Samson Heights was apparently not the only experiment with downsized housing in the Twentieth Century: Lilliputia was a Utopian city of midgets that prospered within the confines of Coney Island’s Dreamland before the whole amusement park burned down in 1911. From what we’ve researched this place makes Dogtown seem like Pleasantville....
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