Public Transportation as Urban Development: A Mississippi Case Study
(Jackie Yamanaka, Yellowstone Public Radio) As the then-Republican Mayor of Meridian, Mississippi, John Robert Smith watched as the city’s $1 million expenditure for the multi-modal Union Station...
View ArticleDetroit Community Organizers 'Re-Imagine' Work
Anyone watching the American economy might question what it means to have job security 2011. In Detroit this week, a group of national community organizers will be taking the question to the extreme as...
View Article[Unedited] Grace Lee Boggs with Krista Tippett
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...
View Article[Unedited] Grace Lee Boggs with Krista Tippett
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...
View ArticleRebuilding Detroit After Bankruptcy
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...
View ArticleThe Suburban Office Park is Finally Becoming Obsolete
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...
View ArticleHas urban revival caused a crisis of success?
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: But first: the double-edged sword of urban revival.Even as some cities are becoming ever more popular and desirable, they’re also becoming places where...
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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