Topic: history
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The Evolution of the American Dream, from Colonial Times to Today
A big new exhibit at the National Building Museum explores the history of house and home in the U.S.
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Photos
Everyone Wants to Look at New York's Municipal Archives Photos
The city has released over 870,000 historic images and made them available online.
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Why the Streets of Copenhagen and Amsterdam Look So Different From Ours
By seizing a historical moment, ordinary Danish and Dutch citizens were able to change the course of development in their urban centers.
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Urban Wonk
The Invention of Jaywalking
The forgotten history of how the auto industry won the right of way for cars.
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The Historical Roots of Detroit's Ruin
In Detroit: A Biography, journalist Scott Martelle finds the answers behind today's Motor City buried deep in its past.
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The Big Fix
Strange Urban Animal Infestations, a History
Miami and house-eating snails, Seattle against a band of coyotes, and more stories of urban outbreaks.
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Should the Post Office Be Saved?
Today's business-centric view of the mail system stands in contrast to its historical civic mandate
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The Municipal Feud That Made Hollywood
In 1937, a California city just southwest of Hollywood tried to change its name - to Hollywood
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Videos
Warning of Urban Sprawl...in 1959
A Hitchcockian take on the danger of perpetual suburbanization from the Urban Land Institute
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The Evolution of Traffic Accidents in New York
Fatalities are on pace to hit their lowest mark in a century. A look back at the way things were when traffic statistics began
