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Prometheus Unmasked

Two reissued classics of New Deal literature, “Black Metropolis” and “Modern Housing,” deserve new attention from architects and urbanists. Sometime in mid-June 2020, as protesters across the United States dethroned monuments to white supremacy, the…

ByBlog Architect

December 12, 2021

Learning from Soul City

HHalf a century ago, a multiracial new town envisioned by a leading Black activist was one of the most visible and ambitious projects to emerge from the civil rights era. Today it is almost entirely…

ByBlog Architect

November 19, 2021

Zombies and Ghosts

In 21st-century finance capitalism, residential buildings are valued less as homes than as investment assets. The results are eerily underpopulated cities and bleak unfinished suburbs. In the years since Occupy Wall Street emerged, it has…

ByBlog Architect

September 15, 2021