In 1970, nearly half of all Black individuals in the U.S. resided in a large city. Over the past 50 years, that number has fallen to merely 25%, while the share living in the suburbs of large cities ...

The massive exodus of people from rural areas to urban areas over the past 200 years has been called the “great urbanization.” For more than two centuries, people have been leaving rural areas to live ...

During the “Roaring Twenties,” most of America, including the city of Columbus, was growing rapidly. After a period of uncertainty following World War I, the 1920s was a period of unprecedented ...

✵ The Great Suburbanization Of American Sports ✵ Today we talk about the good and bad of sports stadiums and how they can ...

The prevalence of homelessness varies across communities by race, with Black communities experiencing disproportionately higher rates of homelessness across both urban and suburban communities, ...

There is no word more evocative in the urban vernacular than "suburb." For most of us, those two syllables conjure a very specific type of place, with a specific kind of people comfortably living ...

The outskirts of town : the geography of Black suburbanization before 1940 -- "Who set you flowin'?" : the great migration, race, and work in the suburbs -- Places of their own : an African American ...