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Nationally renowned urban thinker Chuck Marohn, who kicked off the Library’s Making a Great City series in January 2018, returns to assess the crucial...

Urban designer Jim Kumon looks at the resurgence of small-scale urban neighborhoods in Los Angeles, Denver, and Minneapolis, among other cities, and h...

Urban planner Joe Minicozzi looks at the “math” of effective city building, i.e., the financial implications of land use decisions in municipalities l...

Chuck Marohn, founder of the nonprofit Strong Towns, launches the Making a Great City series with a critical look at how we build our cities and towns...

Award-winning writer, critic, and editor John Freeman joins Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell in a public conversation about Freeman’s...

Matt Gallagher has emerged in the past decade as one of literature’s most distinctive and perceptive voices on the Iraq War. As an Ar...

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Among the things Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants left behind when they fled Kandahar after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was a cache of...

Lady Bird Johnson was no mere White House photo prop. The former Claudia Taylor once was described by husband Lyndon Johnson as “the brains and mon...

Aristocratic and sophisticated, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, the wife of Theodore Roosevelt, ran the White House with a sure hand and figured prominently i...