Jessie Handbury (UN): Are Poor Cities Cheap for Everyone? Non-Homotheticity and the Cost of Living Across U.S. Cities. From TNR, glimpses of a ghetto-free future: Segregation is steadily declining — but whites still live in the least diverse neighborhoods; and the suburbs are not just for white people anymore. Can the birthplace of the Black Panthers gentrify without displacement? Susie Cagle on how Oakland wants you to stop calling it the “next Brooklyn”. Can you gentrify Camden, New Jersey, America’s poorest, most dangerous city? Kevin Hartnett on gentrification: White people following white people. Annalee Newitz on how this is what gentrification really is. Emily Badger on how life in the suburbs means something very different for whites and blacks. The suburb of the future is here: Henry Grabar on how one city avoided the worst of suburbanization and revealed the path toward sustainable urban development. Are you lying about where you’re from? Jordan Sargent on the real borders of your city. Don't say you're from the city if you're really from the 'burbs: It's untrue, it's annoying, and it completely kills the conversation. Charles Marohn on the conservative case against the suburbs. Urban ideologies: How liberal or conservative are America’s cities? Liberals live in cities and that's bad for liberalism: Jonathan Cohn on how the structure of the Senate puts urban states at a disadvantage. Derek Thompson on why middle-class Americans can't afford to live in liberal cities.
