In his new book, eminent historian Joshua B. Freeman turns his attention to an overlooked feature of the American landscape: garden apartments. He details their
In the mid-1950s Baltimore’s Rosemont neighborhood was alive and vibrant with smart rowhouses, a sprawling park, corner grocery stores, and doctors’ offices. By 1957, a
On November 4th, residents of New York City will be casting their votes for mayor. It is an election that many in the United States
Many local policymakers make decisions based on the belief that what’s good for the rich is good for cities. But this wasn’t always the case.
Latino urban history has been underappreciated not only in its own right but for the centrality of its narratives to urban history as a field.
Between the 1880s and the 1930s, New York City experienced explosive growth as nearly a million buildings, dozens of bridges and tunnels, hundreds of miles