> How the Crash Will Reshape America (March 2009)
By Richard Florida
The crash of 2008 has damaged some places much more severely than others. On the other side of the crisis, America's economic landscape will look very different than it does today. What fate will the coming years hold for New York, Charlotte, Detroit, Las Vegas? Will the suburbs be ineffably changed? Which cities and regions can come back strong? And which will never come back at all?
Gentrification and Its Discontents (May 2010)
By Benjamin Schwarz
Manhattan never was what we think it was. Using Greenwich Village to draw lessons and issue prescriptions about New York has been de rigeur since Jane Jacobs' The Death and Life of Great American Cities. But such arguments have never really held up.
Little Skyscraper on the Prairie (July 2008)
By Wayne Curtis
A rare Frank Lloyd Wright tower—one of his most bizarre buildings ever—rises high above the Oklahoma plains.
Downsizing Cities (October 1995)
By Witold Rybczynski
To make cities work better, make them smaller.
How Portland Does It (November 1992)
By Philip Langdon
A city that protects its thriving, civil core.
The Not-So-Second City (January/February 2006)
By Benjamin Schwarz
"Chicago's architecture constitutes one of this country's greatest contributions to modern civilization." A survey of books chronicling the story of Chicago's legendary skyline.