urban life Archives - The American Scholar

Driving Toward the Breach

By Laura Bernstein-Machlay | 09/01/2017 |

Woodward Avenue, the Dream Cruise, and the QLine

The Little Aquarium That Could

By Laura Bernstein-Machlay | 08/18/2017 |

Like Detroit, a tale of rise and fall and rise again

80,000 Squirrels on My Block Alone

By Laura Bernstein-Machlay | 08/11/2017 |

And other tales of Detroit wildlife

Fast Food’s Urban Invasion

By Naa Oyo A. Kwate | 03/06/2017 |

How McDonald’s came to the inner city

Letter from Shanghai

By Phillip Lopate | 07/15/2016 |

The cityscape of the future—and the present

Almost Home

By Stephanie Bastek | 03/23/2016 |

Read an excerpt from Githa Hariharan’s new collection of travel essays

Whom Is Nature For?

By Gaia Vince | 09/02/2015 |

We should all have access to green spaces

The Power Brokers

By Wayne Curtis | 06/11/2015 |

How New Orleans came back

Ahead of the Curve?

By Stephanie Bastek | 06/08/2015 |