Our drive continues through the area once called “the ugliest place in Maryland.” When you look around, though, you can find the building blocks for an urban transformation in these suburbs.
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Let’s take a drive down Rockville Pike, a major thoroughfare near DC. What kinds of development patterns will we find as we pass through each ring of suburbia?
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A lot of supposedly "innovative" proposals are for things that have long existed in neighborhoods, but you wouldn't know it based on the language that planners use.
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What happens when you open your eyes to the stories around you? How does that change the way you see your community?
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An urban photographer reflects on the reactions he got when he started capturing what the American urban landscape is really like—parking lots, declining neighborhoods, tract homes, and all.
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Share photos of your children's trip to school with the hashtag #SchoolCommute
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This week, we asked you to help us mourn the effects of urban renewal by sharing photographs of urban renewal sites in your city. We received close to 100 submissions from across North America. Here are some favorites.
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Share photos of urban renewal sites in your community with the hashtag #UsedToBe and tell us what used to be there.
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Matt Rahner is a photographer and professor in Missouri. His photo series, Eminent Domain, examines the government's take over and demolition of homes in the Wendell-Phillips neighborhood of Kansas City, MO.
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Share photos of empty lots in your community with the hashtag #BuildHereNow.
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The winner of this month's photo contest is Melinda Nunley, who took this picture in her hometown of Frankfort, KY.
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Engagement photos are either urban or rural. They are either a former factory or a leafy meadow, the brick wall of a forgotten factory or an empty beach. Never the subdivision. Never the cul-de-sac.
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