urban sprawl

Freeways and the death of the great American city IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-altesnational.gothic-church-on-a-rock-by-the-sea

Freeways and the death of the great American city

Erik Kain July 22, 2010

Tim Lee’s post on the decline of St. Louis is fascinating and heart-breaking all at once. For...

Walmart is not the culprit, it is the symptom IFRL-NaPP-Space-rawpixel-id-441416

Walmart is not the culprit, it is the symptom

Erik Kain March 11, 2010

Whatever else one thinks of how we live these days, it’s hard to not see it as...

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