Bill Deverell handed me a book the other day, with the recommendation that the author had put together a good story. The book is Building Home: Howard F.…
Skid Row is a "Petri dish" for cultivating human misery. That now includes a strain of tuberculosis that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had tagged as unique to downtown. What began as a "health crisis" has become a "moral crisis."
A professor of Architectural History takes my hometown tour, where the everyday nearly always fails to be ironic and the quotidian does not always disappoint.