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Urban renewal

Coming Apart

by Rebecca Solnit,

In early 2015, fire ravaged a three-story building at the corner of 22nd and Mission in San Francisco. The blaze killed Mauricio Orellana, an immigrant from El Salvador, and destroyed…

In the Shadow of the Storm

by Rebecca Solnit,

Ten years ago this month, on the day Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, I was at Camp Casey, an informal encampment outside George W. Bush’s Crawford ranch, listening to…

Wild Pigeon

by Carolyn Drake,

Holding Harlem

by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts,

The age of aquariums

by Ginger Gail Strand,

The urban crisis leaves town

by T.D. Allman,

And moves to the suburbs

Goodbye, Asheville

by Perry Deane Young,

The Christmas honors list

by John Fischer,

The possibly glorious dream of Mrs. Gloria M. Segal

by John Fischer,

Up against the system in Seattle

by Patrick Douglas,

Notes from the underground

by Harper’s Staff,

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