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The Best Journalism About Cities in 2011
From Braddock, Pennsylvania to Beijing, Nate Berg offers his favorite articles about cities published in 2011.
Nate Berg offers the ten best long-form journalism focused on cities published in 2011. Berg notes that while no single article can capture the essence of all cities, these articles find the representative facets "of cities and use them to explain the current state of various cities, and urbanization as a whole."
The engaging articles include in-depth reporting about Detroit, Braddock (PA), New York, Beijing, Seattle, Brooklyn, Shanghai, and Benton Harbor (MI).
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Published on Wednesday, December 21, 2011 in
- Watch: How Soviet Planners Created a Different Kind of City
- When Discussing Racist Monuments, Don't Forget Urban Freeways
- First New Bridge to Manhattan in Decades Proposed Just for Pedestrians and People on Bikes
- The Eviction Crisis Is Already Here
- Anti-Racist Planning: A View from Elsewhere
- From 60 Affordable Senior Apartments to 16 $5 Million Homes
- Capital Gains Tax Under Consideration in Seattle
- More Housing Could Increase Affordability If You Build It in the Right Places
- Chicago's Planning Director on Leadership During Crises
- Zoning Changes for Economic Resilience During and After the Pandemic
- Plan to Widen I-5 in Portland Loses Critical Local Support
- Failing to Account for Induced Traffic, Even When the Public Demands It
- More Baby Boomers and Fewer Young People: More Dependents Among the U.S. Population
- Pilot Projects Launched to Test Coordinated Curb Use
- California's Coronavirus Infections and Hospitalizations Surge
- As Moratoriums Start to Lift, Preparing for an Eviction Wave
- COVID-19: What About Those Protests?
- The All-New High Line
- House Democrats Approve $1.5 Trillion 'Moving Forward Act'
- Right-to-Purchase Policy Empowers Tenants In San Francisco, Fights Gentrification
