No film genre in Hollywood’s golden age was more urban to its core than noir. The word conjures […]
gentrification
When seen simply as a stream of incoming sales data, Atlanta can look like a city rising up or population left behind, depending on your point of view.
By adopting a fine-grained, street-level perspective, we can see how everyday individuals have helped to shape the history of our city, says historian Marni Davis.
Amazon recently announced that Atlanta had made the shortlist of cities that might land the online retail giant’s […]
Cities are “back,” as you might have heard, following a long period when urban America was viewed by fearful […]
In October 2014, Taylor Swift dropped her fifth album, 1989. Less than a month later in November, she […]
Revisiting a work of pop sociology is almost always a jarring experience. Frederick Lewis Allen’s early postmortem of […]
Asheville is an Appalachian Shangri-La. This year-round resort town, tucked between the Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains, draws a […]