The City Beautiful movement, popularized by the gleaming White City of the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago, made our cities more beautiful, but did it make them more livable? With poverty and pollution overwhelming cities in the late 19th century, the City Beautiful was...
As a contrast with historic Philadelphia and industrial Pittsburgh, we chose to highlight the evolution of Los Angeles in our opening episodes because the sprawling, multi-centric metropolis has pretty much defined urban growth in the 20th and now 21st centuries. LA...
Will San Francisco’s downtown adjacent Mission Bay neighborhood finally see the school that was promised almost 25 years ago now that hundreds of once hopeful families have fled the city due to the school board’s failure to act? It’s a topic we covered in a preview...