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  • An exact replica of Sam Walton's office as it looked when he died in 1962, at the location of his original 5-and-10-cent store, now a museum, in Bentonville, Arkansas, 2018
    An exact replica of Sam Walton's office as it looked when he died in 1962, at the location of his original 5-and-10-cent store, now a museum, in Bentonville, Arkansas, 2018
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    Life Inside Walmart’s Perfect City

    The model of America’s oligarch urbanism is Bentonville, Arkansas, a dazzling but eerie new cultural capital of the South

    bySean Cooper
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    Summer in Chicago

    A dispatch from the bluest city in America

    byClayton Fox
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    Kill Off the Old City so New Cities Can Be Born

    Urban centers are being hollowed out while their peripheries are booming. This is the emerging shape of the American city.

    byJoel Kotkin
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    The Battle for Cities

    Don’t expect a post-pandemic return to ‘normal’ for America’s biggest urban areas, where the quality of life has been declining for years

    byJoel Kotkin
  • American Jews parade a Torah through the streets of Manhattan, Sept. 12, 1971
    American Jews parade a Torah through the streets of Manhattan, Sept. 12, 1971
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    Rooted Cosmopolitans

    Why Jews need the city—or, a Jewish urbanist agenda

    byMichael Lewyn
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    The Office Space Apocalypse

    The era of massive densely packed urban office towers is over for good. What will take its place?

    byJoel Kotkin
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    The Incurable World of Vivian Gornick

    ‘The Odd Woman and the City’ proves the memoirist is a peer of Kazin, Howe, and other great chroniclers of Jewish America

    byAdam Kirsch
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