Civics and Culture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJesS4zH2GI Davos Amos ask how big cities can get. Many megacities, largely defined as over 10 million people, are rapidly growing in industrialized countries. But...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McLgpck2i7A Johnny Harris steps back in time to find out why New York City became so successful and huge even in the age of burgeoning...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F07yTI0J3Qk Vox explains why eviction is a crisis in America and what might or might not be done about it.

This post is a thematic sister to this post. --- I will look back on these days with wonder. I will remember the texture of the...

https://youtu.be/vaThx7z6e0M As of Saturday morning, Joseph R. Biden and Kamala D. Harris have been declared President-elect and Vice President-elect of the United States. They will...

I'll leave it to those around me to conclude whether or not I'm the same person I was eight years ago, when I started...

The relationship between democracy and cities is a close and longstanding one. It was in the ancient Greek city-state of Athens where the word...

https://youtu.be/5yIswZLu_cY Dave Amos walks through the history of strip malls, how they are designed, and how they are being adapted.