Contemporary Urban and Rural Life

City Organization

• The surprising politics of sidewalks (Popular Science)
• How the Layout of Urban "Cells" Affects The Function and Success of Neighborhoods (Arch Daily)
• How Will Cities Adjust to the Population Boom? (The Atlantic)

City Dwellers

• The Myth of the Urban Boomer (The New York Times)
  

• How rats became an inescapable part of city living (National Geographic)
• Why New York City Subway Delays Don’t Affect All Riders Equally (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

• Great Cities Enable You to Live Longer (CityLab)

Suburbs

• The New Suburban Crisis (The Atlantic)

Housing Costs

• The Social Life of Mortgage Delinquency and Default (Sociological Science)

• Landless Americans Are the New Serf Class (The Daily Beast)
• The state of the nation’s housing: stagnant, unequal, far too expensive (Market Watch)
• Impact of Ca High Rents (OC Register)
• The Barriers Stopping Poor People From Moving to Better Jobs (The Atlantic)

Rental Living

• How Poor Americans Get Exploited by Their Landlords (CityLab)

• Neighborhood and Network Disadvantage among Urban Renters (Sociological Science)

• Renters Now Rule Half of U.S. Cities (Bloomberg)

Segregation & Discrimination

• What happens when black Americans leave their segregated hometowns (The Conversation)

• White people abandon diverse neighborhoods for racial, not economic reasons (Indiana University, Bloomington)
• Are African American families more vulnerable in a largely white neighborhood (The Guardian)
• Why Housing Discrimination Is to Blame for Racial Income Disparities (Atlanta Black Star)
• Public housing plays a huge role in racial segregation and inequality — but not in the way most people think (Business Insider)
• Who We Talk About When We Talk About Gentrification (African American Intellectual History Society)
• In their rush to become global, hipster-friendly cities risk creating spatial apartheid (Quartz)
• Everyone Pays A Hefty Price For Segregation, Study Says (NPR)

Urbanization & Social Inequality

• ‘Turn Off the Sunshine’: Why Shade Is a Mark of Privilege in Los Angeles (The New York Times)

• The Heartbreaking Decrease in Black Homeownership (The Washington Post)

• Greater homeownership isn’t the answer to ending wealth inequality (Quartz)
• Do bouncers at clubs enforce dress codes equally across races? (The Conversation)
• As cities become more innovative, they also become more unequal (Quartz)
• Blowing in the wind: why do so many cities have poor east ends? (The Guardian)
• The Poisoned Generation (The Atlantic)
• How Los Angeles' homeless crisis got so bad (Los Angeles Times)

Gentrification

• How social media images can predict gentrification in cities (World Economic Forum)
• How Urban Core Amenities Drive Gentrification and Increase Inequality (City Lab)

• In praise of gentrification (The Economist)
• 'There Isn't A Just Housing Choice': How We've Enabled The Pains Of Gentrification (National Public Radio)

Public Policy

• We're in the Middle of a Housing Crisis (NPR)
• Small cities are 'not prepared to grow' (Reuters)
• Homeless people face L.A. crackdown on living in cars (Los Angeles Times)
• One Solution to Southern California's Housing Crisis (Los Angeles Times)

Urban Change

• How to Grow the Wealth of Poor Neighborhoods From the Bottom Up (CityLab)
• Why Neighborhoods Get Better: Research Provides Insights That May Surprise You (Forbes)

Global Urbanization

• The Housing Crisis Extends Far Beyond 'Superstar' Cities (CityLab)
• The Myth That Urbanization Means Prosperity (The Atlantic)

Rural Communities & Inequality

• How America’s Food Giants Swallowed the Family Farms (The Guardian)
• The Crisis of Rural Despair (Psychology Today)
• Rural poverty skyrockets as jobs move away (The Hill)
• What America Is Losing as Its Small Towns Struggle (The Atlantic)