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Evan Friss

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Black and white photo of Boston’s Old Corner bookstore (1900).

Bookselling Out

“The Bookshop” tells the story of American bookstores in thirteen types. Its true subject is not how bookstore can survive, but how they should be.
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Are Bookstores Just a Waste of Space?

In the online era, brick-and-mortar book retailers have been forced to redefine themselves.
A book ladder stretching into a cloudy sky.

Every Book Lover Dreams of It. Few Ever Get It.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a man of letters, in possession of a goodly number of books, must be in need of a ladder.
Pedestrians, buggies, and a streetcar in a Los Angeles intersection in 1910.

LA’s Traffic Ordinance Went Into Effect 100 Years Ago. It Changed Streets Across America.

The Ordinance, which prioritized cars on the city’s roadways, quickly became the template for the country.

Street Privilege: New Histories of Parking and Urban Mobility

How the history of parking in America highlights its societal inequalities.

Mapping the Urban Bike Utopias of the 1890s

Bicycle mania swept the nation at the end of the 19th century. Can it happen again?