Poverty and Urbanism -- Related Articles in The Atlantic Housing: Examining a Media Myth, by Gregg Easterbrook (1995) The media's focus on the plight of the middle class has diverted attention from the plight of those who most need help. New Yorkers Without a Voice: A Tragedy of Urban Renewal, by Arthur Simon (1966) When the author, a thirty-five-year-old Lutheran minister, became pastor of Manhattan's Trinity Lutheran Church in 1961, he found himself in the middle of a political row involving New York City's redevelopment officials and tenement dwellers in and near an East River housing site marked for demolition. Return to "Urban Affairs: Good News!" Copyright © 1997 by The Atlantic Monthly Company. All rights reserved.