..Sociology in My Neighborhood: DC Ward Six

In the DC Archives the other day, I came across two interesting items from 1979. On January 2, 1979, Marion Barry became the second mayor o...

Clinton Yates wrote a great piece in the Post today: " Officials who want 'world class' need to look no further than D.C.'...

City Center,  Washington Post , 4/23/2014 In my last post , I talked about the dystopian nature of high modernist architecture, as arch...

Last week, I attended the excellent Cities at the Center of the World conference organized by Mason's Center for Global Studies  and C...

The Wire City narrative presents cities like Baltimore and DC as emerging out of a past of chaos and devastation. The show "The Wire...

Today I was looking through files of slides at the National Archives in College Park, in search of photos of the Potomac Gardens public hou...

According to Where are They Now? , a fascinating study of those evicted from SW, "Southwest Washington was a rat-infested, refuse-cove...