How debt and speculation financed the suburban American dream and led to today’s inequalitiesIn the popular imagination, the suburbs are synonymous with the “American Dream” of upward mobility...

Traces the rise and fall of the historic Black business community in DetroitThe Great Migration saw more than six million African Americans leave the US South between 1910 and 1970. Though the experiences...

A comprehensive history of Philadelphia from the region’s original Lenape inhabitants to the myriad of residents in the twenty-first centuryPhiladelphia is famous for its colonial and revolutionary...

A chronicle of neighborhood redevelopment politics in West Philadelphia over 60 yearsIn twenty-first-century American cities, policy makers increasingly celebrate university-sponsored innovation districts...

Constructing Gardens, Cultivating the City is the first cultural history of major new parks developed in Paris in the late twentieth century, as part of the city’s program of adaptive reuse of industrial...

Hospital City, Health Care Nation recasts the story of the U.S. health care system by emphasizing its economic, social, and medical importance in American communities. Focusing on urban hospitals and...

While state and federal prisons like Attica and Alcatraz occupy a central place in the national consciousness, most incarceration in the United States occurs within the walls of local jails. In This...

In the twenty-first century, cities in the United States that had suffered most the shift to a postindustrial era entered a period widely proclaimed as an urban renaissance. From Detroit to Newark to...