Sarah Goodyear
Sarah Goodyear has written about cities for a variety of publications, including Grist and Streetsblog. She lives in Brooklyn.
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The Junk Food Attitude Toward Place
We consume these places without thinking, like potato chips in front of the television, and America is full of them.
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How Street Art Is Changing a Miami Neighborhood
Is Wynwood a place where Miami’s creative minds come to hang out and work or "where art goes to die"?
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An L.A. Artist Makes Immigrant Workers Impossible to Ignore
Ramiro Gomez plants cardboard cutouts of domestic service employees in wealthy neighborhoods.
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Can City Dwellers Have Nice Things?
Violence at New York's McCarren Park Pool has some suggesting all urban resources fall prey to the tragedy of the commons. Here's why this thinking is flawed.
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Videos
Sometimes the Simplest Ideas Make the Best Pop-Ups
Five blocks of a downtown Cleveland boulevard were temporarily transformed this spring.
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Of Storefronts, Soulless Banks, and the Slow Death of Nora Ephron's Upper West Side
A walk down Broadway used to be all jangle and buzz, an urban improvisation of sound and action. Now it’s more like a prerecorded loop that repeats block after block.
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Maps
Obesity's Spread Across America Looks Like a Virus
The country's most pressing non-contagious health crisis seems to act like it is one. What does that mean for public health policy?
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Videos
Insane 'Free Skiing' in the Urban Ruins of Industrial Russia
A group of hardcore Finnish free-ski stylists are making amazing videos amid the urban landscapes of Northern and Eastern Europe.
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What's Making China Fat?
Obesity rates have skyrocketed in China over the last generation, at the same time that its cities have exploded. A group of researchers is now trying to pin down the relationship between the two.
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Freeway Removal Hits a Roadblock in the Bronx
Reports of the death of the Sheridan Expressway have been greatly exaggerated.
