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My latest at CSY. The allure of the new, the reality of disparate impact, and the urge to “set it – and forget it.”
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Thoughts on “The Slumless City”
The allure of the new, the reality of disparate impact, and the urge to “set it – and forget it.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/thoughts-on-the-slumless-city?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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My latest at CSY. Sadly, neglect, overreach and co-option have been utilized by Republicans to mold our perceptions of cities.
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Red States And Blue Cities – The Little-Discussed Relationship: Part 2
Sadly, neglect, overreach and co-option have been utilized by Republicans to mold our perceptions of cities.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/red-states-and-blue-cities-the-little-6e0?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
16 days ago
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My latest at CSY. Three "I" words take center stage: inclusion, insulation and isolation.
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Commentary: Making “Abundance” Inclusive; Seattle’s South Lake Union
Three "I" words take center stage: inclusion, insulation and isolation.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/commentary-making-abundance-inclusive?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
18 days ago
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My latest at CSY. Republicans haven't exactly seen stellar success in large cities. There are reasons.
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Red States And Blue Cities – The Little-Discussed Relationship: Part 1
Republicans haven't exactly seen stellar success in large cities. There are reasons.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/red-states-and-blue-cities-the-little?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
19 days ago
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My latest at CSY. Maybe our nation's housing crisis is because of a lack of imagination, not a lack of supply.
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Thoughts About Reimaging Suburbs
Maybe our nation's housing crisis is because of a lack of imagination, not a lack of supply.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/thoughts-about-reimaging-suburbs?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
21 days ago
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My latest at CSY. I'm A Metropolitanist.
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I'm A Metropolitanist
Maybe the best opportunity for meaningful and comprehensive urban revitalization has come and gone.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/im-a-metropolitanist?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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My latest at CSY. Land use guidelines for the suburban retrofitting America needs.
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CSY Replay #31: Streetcar Suburb Design, Illustrated
Design guidelines for the suburban retrofitting America needs.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/csy-replay-31-streetcar-suburb-design?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
about 1 month ago
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My latest at CSY. Trump’s rumored next move isn’t about subduing Chicago crime. It’s about intimidation and submission. Not me.
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Bring It, Trump
Chicago readies for a battle.
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My latest at CSY. How Americans live contributes mightily to our inability to come to terms with pressing social issues.
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Donald Trump: Crime Fighter, Or Crowd Pleaser?
How Americans live contributes mightily to our inability to come to terms with pressing social issues.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/donald-trump-crime-fighter-or-crowd?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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My latest at CSY. Fighting over which development type is best is a no-win game.
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Cities And Suburbs: Get It Together
Fighting to see which development type is best is a no-win game.
https://petesaunders.substack.com/p/cities-and-suburbs-get-it-together
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My latest at CSY.
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Housing Affordability vs. Economic Mobility – What’s More Important For Cities?
Trick question -- they're equally important.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/housing-affordability-vs-economic?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
about 2 months ago
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My latest at CSY. The fundamental reason why American cities -- all of them -- underperform.
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CSY Replay #30: Inequality Is Inefficiency
The fundamental reason why American cities -- all of them -- underperform.
https://petesaunders.substack.com/p/csy-replay-30-inequality-is-inefficiency
about 2 months ago
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My latest at CSY. Atlanta has literally painted itself into a corner.
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Atlanta’s Sluggish Growth Is Geographically Influenced
The region has literally painted itself into a corner.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/atlantas-sluggish-growth-is-geographically?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
2 months ago
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My latest at CSY. When cities embrace the things that make them different, they embrace their unique strengths.
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Remember Urban Authenticity?
When cities embrace the things that make them different, they embrace their unique strengths.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/remember-urban-authenticity?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
2 months ago
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Check out my latest at CSY! If an eds and meds strategy is who you've got, go with it.
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I'm Sticking With "Eds And Meds"
It's a workable community revitalization and economic development strategy -- for some cities, but perhaps not all.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/im-sticking-with-eds-and-meds?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
2 months ago
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My latest at CSY. Andrew Burleson brought up the definitional problems people have with “urban” and “suburban”. Time plays a role in our confusion on this.
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CSY Replay #29: Toward a Clearer Definition of City and Suburb
For many, "urban" means old and "suburban" means new, or at least newer. That contributes to our definition confusion.
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2 months ago
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My latest at CSY. Today's service class deserves the same kind of economic infrastructure that made middle class households out of manufacturing workers.
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Middle Class Reimagination
Today's service class deserves the same kind of economic infrastructure that made middle class households out of manufacturing workers.
https://petesaunders.substack.com/p/middle-class-reimagination
2 months ago
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My latest at CSY. Dismissing the fact that it could happen comes at other city's own peril.
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Great Lakes Cities As Climate Refuges? A Possibility But Not The Only One
Dismissing the fact that it could happen comes at other city's own peril.
https://petesaunders.substack.com/p/great-lakes-cities-as-climate-refuges
2 months ago
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My latest at CSY. Thoughts on the hottest five-day stretch I’ve ever experienced.
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Chicago Heat, Twenty Years Later
Chicago had so many dead bodies piling up during its 1995 heat wave that the city recruited refrigerated trucks to handle the overflow.
https://petesaunders.substack.com/p/chicago-heat-twenty-years-later?utm_source=publication-search
3 months ago
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My latest at CSY. Another look at the neighborhoods in cities and metros that aren't part of the revitalizing downtown or the sprawling suburbs.
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Even More On “Garlic Knot” Cities
Another look at the neighborhoods in cities and metros that aren't part of the revitalizing downtown or the sprawling suburbs.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/even-more-on-garlic-knot-cities?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
3 months ago
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My latest at CSY. YIMBYs are right to pursue options for increasing housing development. But we can't look to past methods for answers.
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Land Developability And Housing Costs
YIMBYs are right to pursue options for increasing housing development. But we can't look to past methods for answers.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/land-developability-and-housing-costs?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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My latest at CSY. The Midwest’s weather is not, uh, optimal. But it’s not the principal reason people leave the Midwest.
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The Midwest Climate Critique Is Bogus
It's the economy, stupid.
https://petesaunders.substack.com/p/the-midwest-climate-critique-is-bogus
3 months ago
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My latest at CSY. There is no insulation without isolation. The problems don’t go away because you choose not to acknowledge them.
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More On Cities And Distressed Neighborhoods
Examples of how metro areas hide the distressed parts to keep us looking at the prosperous ones.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/more-on-cities-and-distressed-neighborhoods?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
3 months ago
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My latest at CSY. Maybe giving up control of the public realm was more significant than embracing land use restrictions via zoning.
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Planning and the Public Realm, the Way It Used to Be
Maybe giving up control of the public realm was more significant than embracing land use restrictions via zoning.
https://petesaunders.substack.com/p/planning-and-the-public-realm-the
3 months ago
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My latest at CSY. There's always been a strain of anti-city sentiment in the U.S. As much as I love cities, I wonder if it will ever go away.
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Juneteenth, And Why Animus Toward Cities Persists Today
There's always been a strain of anti-city sentiment in the U.S. As much as I love cities, I wonder if it will ever go away.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/juneteenth-and-why-animus-toward?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
3 months ago
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My latest at CSY. Segregation -- or more pointedly, Black avoidance -- is the key reason for today's "garlic knot" cities.
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CSY Replay #26: The Life Cycle Of Black Urban Neighborhoods
Bill Fulton's "garlic knot" cities exist because segregation -- or more pointedly, Black avoidance -- remains a prominent feature across the country.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/csy-replay-26-the-life-cycle-of-black?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
4 months ago
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My latest at CSY. How cities shield (or don't shield) their distressed communities from view can alter perceptions of their economic progress.
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Cities And Distress: In Plain View, Or Hidden?
How cities shield (or don't shield) their distressed communities from view can alter perceptions of their economic progress.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/cities-and-distress-in-plain-view?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
4 months ago
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My latest at CSY. Let me tell you about perhaps the greatest missed opportunity in urban economic history.
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Cities And Economic Pivots
Let me tell you about perhaps the greatest missed opportunity in urban economic history.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/cities-and-economic-pivots?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
4 months ago
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My latest at CSY.
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Railroad Suburbs: A Model For Suburban Redevelopment
More development like this would make suburbs vastly better places.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/railroad-suburbs-a-model-for-suburban?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
5 months ago
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You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.
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My latest at CSY.
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Bounded Vs. “Boundless”: Why Comparing Cities With Suburbs Is Crazy
Core cities of metro areas will always come to a defined end. Individual suburbs do too, but the idea of suburbia keeps on expanding. Why do we compare them this way?
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/bounded-vs-boundless-why-comparing?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
6 months ago
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My latest at CSY. This starts as a social phenomenon and then becomes an economic one. Not vice versa.
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CSY Replay #22: The Life Cycle of Black Urban Neighborhoods
Social isolation starts the downward spiral of many Black urban neighborhoods. Economic isolation kicks it into high gear.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/csy-replay-22-the-life-cycle-of-black?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
6 months ago
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My latest at CSY. The Midwest is doing just fine.
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Who's Winning For Talent In The Heartland?
A recent study completed by Richard Florida for Heartland Forward shows that, despite the success of metros like Austin and Nashville, Midwestern metros are doing pretty well.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/whos-winning-for-talent-in-the-heartland?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
6 months ago
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My latest at CSY. What I wrote about Detroit when it was perhaps at its lowest point.
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CSY Replay #21: Reasons Behind Detroit's Decline
Revisiting the first, and most popular, piece I've written, 13 years later.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/csy-replay-21-reasons-behind-detroits?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
6 months ago
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My latest at CSY. Maybe people will like the 15-minute city concept if we don't try to force it on them.
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Moving 15-Minute Cities From Abstraction To Reality
If urbanists could just stop prescribing solutions and instead incentivize them, we'd see some real change.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/moving-15-minute-cities-from-abstraction?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
6 months ago
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My latest at CSY. The origin stories of places can tell you a lot about where they came from, but maybe even more about where they're headed.
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"Who" Was A Place Built For?
The origin stories of places can tell you a lot about where they came from, but maybe even more about where they're headed.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/who-was-a-place-built-for?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
6 months ago
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My latest at CSY. Can quality Rust Belt neighborhoods lure residents back?
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The "Great Bones" of Rust Belt Cities
Can quality Rust Belt neighborhoods lure residents back?
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/the-great-bones-of-rust-belt-cities?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
6 months ago
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Peter Flax
6 months ago
One thing that's hard to unsee once you're aware of it. White supremacy is inherently fueled by insecurity about white mediocrity.
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My latest at CSY. Time to jump onboard!
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CSY Shoots For The Stars
News of the exciting kind.
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7 months ago
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My latest at CSY.
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The "Where", "What" And "When" Of Housing and Communities
A view of a street in Levittown, NY in January 1954.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/the-where-what-and-when-of-housing?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
7 months ago
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My latest at CSY. A roundup of urbanism developments in the Rust Belt.
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Midwest Musings, #4
The transformation of dated office parks, working on waterfront revitalization and the possible (partial) demolition of an iconic development take center stage.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/midwest-musings-4?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
7 months ago
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My latest at CSY. Sometimes at the metro level, population growth and GDP growth move at different rates.
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CSY Replay #20: Advanced Statistics For Urbanists? Introducing The Population + Productivity Index
The cover of the 1996 edition of the Places Rated Almanac.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/csy-replay-20-advanced-statistics?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
7 months ago
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My latest at CSY.
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The Books That Shaped My View Of The Midwest
Dualism defines Midwestern cities. They've long been the home of good and bad things, at the same time.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/the-books-that-shaped-my-view-of?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
7 months ago
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My latest at CSY. Checking out what's happening in Midwestern cities.
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Midwest Musings, #3
Waterfront revitalization in Omaha, Louisville and Milwaukee, a hot housing market in Buffalo, and more.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/midwest-musings-3?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
7 months ago
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My latest at CSY.
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We Don't Need Policy When Practice Will Do
Maybe redlining wasn't the "aha!" policy that explains today's troubling racial inequality.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/we-dont-need-policy-when-practice?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
7 months ago
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CSY Replay #19: A Definition of Black Urbanism And The Black Urbanism Series
Recognizing Black voices in the urbanism sphere.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/csy-replay-19-a-definition-of-black?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
7 months ago
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Get Your Rust Belt Education, Right Here
A review of the book Rust Belt Reporter, by former Detroit Free Press columnist John Gallagher.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/get-your-rust-belt-education-right?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
7 months ago
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The Revival Of Black Town Centers
They were born of a segregated past, but offer wealth-generating opportunities for the future.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/the-revival-of-black-town-centers?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
7 months ago
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How Do YIMBYs Respond To Housing Markets With *No* Demand?
Believe it or not, there are neighborhoods that are deeply devalued, and need the attention of urbanists as well.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petesaunders/p/how-do-yimbys-respond-to-housing?r=3patk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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