Urban Revival

Salon.com recently posted a great slideshow of the most segregated cities in America. The post had a map of the racial breakdown of each cit...

This is a 10 minute documentary on the gentrification of Seattle's Central District. This video focuses on the recent targetting of the ...

This is a video made for a research project about the Central District of Seattle based on the music video and lyrics for "Home" b...

Jake One - Home feat. Vitamin D, Note, Maneak B and Ish

Grin , a Chilean artist who has been active for more than a decade. Grin combines his passion for graffiti with another urban discipline: a...

In the inner-city housing project of Toronto's Regent Park, Kendell and Mikey, like their surroundings are in the process of transformat...

Before the January 2010 Earthquake

Please check out the whole "Brick CIty" documentary. http://bit.ly/brickcity

Last week a 5 part documentary series on Newark, New Jersey called “ Brick City ” aired on the Sundance Channel. The series was an excellen...

BRICK CITY, is a five-part documentary series that captures the daily drama of a community striving to become a better, safer, stronger plac...

After seeing the past video of Detroit on the move, this video shows the same buildings which were being built in the 1960's now in deca...

This public domain film narrated by then-mayor Jerome P. Cavanaugh was made in 1965 to promote Detroit. The city faced many urban problems a...

I have never been to Detroit but I always have a fondness for cities like it because they will never be what they once were. I primarily gr...

Interesting article from Richmond Channel 8 News . As anyone knows, no city can bring back it's middle class without significantly impr...

From PostBourgie.com: Talent and dedication may not be enough to keep the girls of Middle School 61 in Brooklyn on the basketball court. Abo...

In my previous post I discussed Gentrification and New Urbanism where the founder of New Urbanism, Andres Duany seemed to be in support of ...

Hip Hop is a product of the city. Similarly to the Blues, Hip Hop begun from the spirit of the havenots and the burdened. The economic condi...

Like no other music before or after it, Hip Hop intrinsically belongs to the city. Hip Hop was birthed in the city, lives in the city and co...

This is a really good show that shows architectural students trying to bridge architecutral design with community wants and needs. After wat...