Places Wire

A new map has traced the extent of the apparently public spaces actually owned by developers and corporations that are spreading across the city.

The New York Times’ reporter in Caracas covered the country’s spiraling problems for eight months, before he was banned from returning.

In this excerpt from Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul, blogger Jeremiah Moss considers the transformation of the neighborhood.

The rise of online short-term rentals may be the tipping point that causes places like Crested Butte, Colorado, to lose their middle class altogether.

Hope is a crucial metric when it comes to inequality in America, and place has a major role to play in how optimistic people are about their futures.

South Korea’s thriving capital is struggling to define itself. (Also see “Collective Dust,” in Places.)

Owen Hatherley reviews Robert Kanigel’s Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs and Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs, edited by Samuel Zipp and Nathan Storring.

The state’s unique and open relationship with Mexico is overshadowing Trump’s immigration policies. (Also see “Documenting the Undocumented,” in Places.)

Homelessness is surging as the median cost of a home has reached twice the national average at a staggering $500,000.

The clinic is the second-biggest employer in Ohio and one of the greatest hospitals in the world, but its host community remains mired in poverty.

Economists are wrangling to understand the backlash that helped to fuel the extraordinary political shifts of the past 18 months.

In a small town in rural Colorado, the president’s tone is having a deeper influence than his politics.

Both inside and outside the system and the society that had created it, the refugee camp became, unwittingly for the authorities, an autonomous space.

The former industrial city in Northern California is an uneasy mix of boarded-up storefronts and glossy new developments.

Local residents have organized to help define a sustainable future for Tonawanda, Buffalo after the closure of the nearby Huntley Generating Station.

Urban revitalization is more closely tied to the education than the income of residents, according to a new study that compared 1.6 million pairs of photos of neighborhoods taken seven years apart.

Kahauiki Village is a purpose-built, plantation-inspired community intended to set up formerly homeless families with shelter and work.

The Chicago neighborhood of Roseland is shaped by beauty — in nature and in spirit — as well as by the decades of neglect that followed the riots of 1968.

In upstate New York, both workers and the farmers who employ them fear more aggressive immigration enforcement.

Life is growing increasingly precarious for the 3,000 immigrants that call the mining town of Leadville, Colorado, home.

In 1921, a wave of racial violence destroyed the affluent African-American community in Oklahoma’s Greenwood District.

The closure of McDowell County’s local store left the community facing the devastating losses of its biggest employer and source of fresh food. (Also see “All Those Numbers: Logistics, Territory and Walmart,” in Places.)

The postwar regeneration of Plymouth created spaces that were perfectly adapted to the 2016 craze for Pokemon Go! in the city, and spawned a new breed of conscientious urban wanderers.

When Trump pulled out of the Paris climate accord, he may have achieved something few presidents ever manage: changing the way the world works.

A new book delves into the data on the rising poverty in America’s suburbs and uncovers the changing geography of inequality.

Emergency facilities are struggling with the confluence of rising rents, decreasing federal funding, and growing demand.

The lifelong urbanite’s resentment for cities is rooted in the history of 1970s and ’80s New York.

Twenty-first-century electric cooperatives are becoming perhaps unlikely players in the contest for power between progressives and conservatives in the heart of so-called Trump country.

Twenty years after its handover to China, the city remains suspended between the conflicting influences of its colonial past and the authorities in Beijing.

As countries like France, Italy, and Spain have steadily moved ahead with improved networks, the United States has missed out on a whole generation of high-speed rail investment.

Issues 01 and 02 of the journal of the Douglas C. Allen Institute for the Study of Cities are now available.

In the biggest metropolitan areas of the U.S., housing projects using federal dollars are being disproportionately built in majority nonwhite communities.

The country once known for its commitment to liberalism now stands apart for the disregard of its elites for the troubles of so many of their fellow citizens.

With right-wing zealots taking over the legislature even as the state’s demographics shift leftward, Texas has become the nation’s bellwether.

The British Immigration Acts of 2014 and 2016 have produced racist landscapes in which material spatial boundaries exist for some people and not others.

The celebrated filmmaker reflects on changes in the capital since he filmed the psychogeographic classic London 25 years ago.

Apartments make up almost a third of the housing stock in America’s largest cities, with half of all of them being home to only a single person.

In the Bay Area, places like Antioch in Contra Costa county have struggled to deal with a recent spike in homelessness.

Trump’s infrastructure plan is not a plan. It is an exercise in propaganda.

A year after Mayor Ed Lee formed the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing to help tackle the problem, homelessness in the city is as bad as ever.

The South Coast, a 30-mile drive from Palo Alto, is facing an affordable-housing shortage that is jeopardizing its agricultural heritage.

The newly-installed right-wing government and an emerging crop of dystopian fiction writers both reflect the country’s struggle between progress and socioeconomic torpor.

In rural Greene County, Pennsylvania, a local environmental activist is fighting to prepare her community for life beyond mining.

As more districts splinter along lines of race and income, judicial processes meant to protect the fair distribution of educational resources are failing.

In the U.K. — and in the U.S. — public goods like affordable housing have been neglected to dangerous degrees.

After decriminalizing the practice earlier this year, the city must learn from the mistakes that led it to be outlawed in the 1990s.

The West Calumet Public Housing Complex was evacuated last May after it was found to have been built on one of the most toxic Superfund sites. (Also see “The Things They Piled,” in Places.)

America’s failure to address the explosion in drug abuse is part of a larger story in which incremental problems, from deteriorating infrastructure to declining schools, are allowed to fester.

Harsh sentences and a graying population have made the U.K.’s prisons its largest provider of residential care for elderly men.

The city is experimenting with mobile laundries and a tiny home village to try to improve conditions for its rising number of rough sleepers. (Also see “Tent City, America,” in Places.)

Behind all the theater of ‘Tech Week,’ Trump’s budget makes deeper cuts to research and development than any White House in modern history.

The iconic images that adorned Casa Aztlán, a former Latino community center in Pilsen, have been removed as part of its conversion into luxury apartments.

The president’s budget calls for sharp reductions in funding for programs that shelter the poor and combat homelessness, but preserves a subsidy that is paid directly to private landlords.

95-degree days are expected to multiply this century, even if countries take moderate climate action.

Journalist Jorge Caraballo Cordovez’s project, “East Boston, Nuestra Casa,” uses postcards to inform locals about displacement, tenants’ rights, and legal resources.

The immigrant neighborhood in Brooklyn persevered after 9/11, but can it survive in the age of Trump?

The unincorporated community of Columbia, Maryland, turns 50 this week, and the poster child of the post-war New Town movement is changing.

Recent figures released by the county show that the number shot up by 63% in the past year, a staggering rise in a county that saw its overall homeless population increase by 23%.

The five rowhouses that Douglass built on South Dallas Street in Baltimore in 1892 are still inhabited today.

After pseudonymously blogging about the loss of the city’s mom-and-pop shops for the past ten years, Griffin Hansbury is emerging as an activist for the resistance he has sparked.