Urban and Rural Life

Urbanization

• Urbanization
• Urban Sociologist Matthew Desmond

• How Highways Wrecked American Cities

City Planning

• Why cities are full of uncomfortable benches (Vox)

• How "greening" urban areas could improve our mental health

• Megacities: Urban Future and Complexities

• How Public Spaces Make Cities Work
• Isolation and Our City of Tomorrow
• Space and Mode of Transport

Suburbs

• Why so many suburbs look the same

• What America's shopping mall decline means for social space (Vox)

• Why America is Leaving the Suburbs

Gentrification

• Gentrification

• What We Don't Understand About Gentrification
• The Pros and Cons of Gentrification
• Gentrification and the Next Generation
  
• Gentrification in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles
  

Digital Divide

• Digital Divide

Residential Segregation

• American segregation, mapped at day and night

• William Julius Wilson: Joblessness and Poor Neighborhoods

• Housing Segregation in America; A History
• Redlining: The Origin of Ghettos
• Residential Segregation

Environmental Racism and Justice

• Environmental Racism

Urbanization and Poverty

• Urbanization of Poverty
• Ron Finley: Urban Gangsta Gardener in South Central LA
• Inner City Blues

Rural Life

• Why Our Conversation About Rural America is Incomplete

• The Forgotten: Rural America
• The Hopeful Face of Middle America

Global Urbanization

• Hong Kong’s Cage Homes (Vox)

• What Are the World's Largest Megacities?
• Forest City: $100 Billion City Made From Scratch in Johor, Malaysia
• The Philippines: From the slums to a model farm
• Most Populated Cities from 1500-2018