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California’s tech industry cannot escape its original sins.

In this interview from five years ago, the author of this important book discusses some of the events and policies that have made Detroit a showcase for the neoliberal mode of urban development.

The I-Hotel struggle helped to forge a unified Filipino community linking elderly immigrants from the early twentieth century and young people who were raising their consciousness of ethnic pride and their awareness of racial and class inequities.

While rural hospitals have been closing at a quickening pace over the past two decades, a number of inner-city hospitals now face a similar fate.

Fire in the Anthropocene has become the physical equivalent of endless nuclear war. A new, profoundly sinister nature is rapidly emerging from our fire rubble at the expense of landscapes we once considered sacred.

History, Taylor writes, is not repeating itself with housing inequality, but cyclically proceeding as an inevitable effect of a racialized system perpetuated by capitalism.

Price George's County, Maryland residents complain that instead of promised stores and library, a backdoor deal may bring an Amazon warehouse to their neighborhood.

From London to Liverpool to Glasgow our cities are taking inspiration from Manhattan. Yet an ugly vision lies behind its new developments.