Selected Articles
The designer of Central Park championed a coördinated federal response to the public-health emergency caused by the Civil War.
The New Yorker
May 16, 2020
The cartoonist Michael Crawford had a thing for America—jazz and baseball and mobsters, which made their way into many of his gags for this magazine—but also the map of it, the shapes of it, the names of it.
The New Yorker
July 4, 2017
Citylab, August 12, 2014
Citylab, February 27, 2014
A reenactor’s story
The Civil War Monitor
Fall 2013
The New York Times
October 18, 2011
The New York Times
May 30, 2012
Twenty years ago, planners hoping to expand I-69 into a NAFTA Superhighway ran into a roadblock: Thomas and Sandra Tokarski. Public opinion has been divided ever since.
Indianapolis Monthly
September 2010
The Atlantic
January 2009
The New Yorker
October 29, 2007
How Hurricane Katrina became a defining moment for New Urbanism.
The Oxford American
Summer 2006
The Great River Bridge will forever change the Mississippi Delta. If it ever gets built.
The Oxford American
Winter 2005
The rise of the Old Crow Medicine Show
The Oxford American
Music Issue 2003
“Blues is not a song. It’s an expression of your past life. The life that you have lived. Blues is a feeling.”
Oxford American
Summer Music Issue 2001
How Greg Brown became a cult hero.
The New Yorker
November 20, 2000