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Tag Archives: suburbia
Dead Zones
Into The Wild: Santiago Street
Dispatch from the slums of suburbia.
When I parked my car at the end of Santiago Street, I half expected to find a cul-de-sac devoid of houses. Chris Blackwell, principal planner from the Penn Hills Department of Planning and Economic Development, told me how his department had demolished nearly all the street’s blighted properties in recent years.
Dead Zones
Scene From The Suburban Slums: ‘This Is All Gone Now’
For the last several months, I’ve been researching the topic of suburban decline for a series of nonfiction stories I’m working on. I’m looking at what is traditionally viewed as first-ring suburbs, or the first wave of planned communities beyond the city limits. My focus is on the eastern suburbs outside of Pittsburgh, an area I’ve lived nearly all my life.
Personal Essays
Notes From the Kitchen of the Holiday Inn
For the last several months, I’ve been reading through a clutter of essays and story ideas that I’ve left for dead. Some were abandoned for good reasons. Other pieces, however, just never got my full attention (and probably never will). The other day I found this (read after the jump). It was part of an essay I was writing…
