Welcome to the virtual tour of A People’s Guide to New York City! Unlike traditional guidebooks that highlight the glitz, glamor, consumption, and spectacle of cities, often at the expense of people of color, immigrants, the working class, and LGBTQ communities, A People’s Guide to NY...
By Tracy Perkins, author of Evolution of a Movement: Four Decades of California Environmental Justice Activism
Group photo at the annual Ward Valley commemoration ceremony. February 24, 2018. Photo by author.
Today, there is no nuclear waste dump in Ward Valley. This beautiful stret...
By Stephen Wheeler, co-author of Reimagining Sustainable Cities: Strategies for Designing Greener, Healthier, More Equitable Communities
As one of the landmark publications of the last year in the social sciences, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, by David Graeber and ...
Adam M. Romero is Assistant Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell.
The toxicity of pesticides to the environment and humans is often framed as an unfortunate effect of their benefits to agricultural production. In Eco...
By Mitchell Schwarzer, author of Hella Town: Oakland’s History of Development and Disruption
It was the spring of 1964 and the sea air caressed my face as my father drove us along the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn. He pulled off to a rest stop. We got out of the car and raced to the shorel...
By Colin McFarlane, author of Fragments of the City: Making and Remaking Urban Worlds
I was standing in front of two side-by-side pictures, both black and white images of houses on an ordinary street. When I stood back, I realised that the photos were in fact of the same house. One...