3+ week, 1+ day ago  (178+ words) Subscribe for $100 to receive six beautiful issues per year. Yet just a decade after Nance's speech, two thirds of American homes had a TV set, including 78 percent of those in cities. As early as 1948, public housing officials were already debating…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago  (367+ words) Subscribe for $100 to receive six beautiful issues per year. Western cities today grow much more slowly. Between 2010 and 2020, New York's, London's and Paris's metropolitan areas grew by an average of 0.6 percent per year, while even the fastest-growing cities, like Houston…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (672+ words) A lot of what we find interesting about cities is the retail within them. We lean on retail " shops, cafes, restaurants and so on " to make cities what they are. Urban economist Ed Glaeser called this the rise of the…...

6+ mon, 5+ day ago  (991+ words) For most of its history, Feeding America, the nation's largest nonprofit, relied on a broken system to distribute its 220 million pounds of food per year. It ignored existing stocks and donations, flooding fully stocked food banks in Idaho with potatoes…...