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Placemakers
All communities face certain challenges. But some people see challenges as opportunities. On Placemakers, we bring you stories about the spaces we inhabit and the people who shape them. Join...
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Listen to Placemakers, a Society & Culture podcast by Slate Podcasts. Stream 22 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 22 episodesPaid Podcast: Uniting a Neighborhood
Seattle’s Yesler Terrace was the first racially integrated housing project in the U.S. Today, it remains a multicultural nexus for the city....
When Good Placemakers Go Bad
George Leonidas Leslie was perhaps the most sensational—and successful!—criminal in American history. An architect by training, he planned a...
A City of Blue Ribbons
Long before the Black Lives Matter movement swept the U.S., Dallas’ police chief tried to diffuse the anger and mistrust between minority co...
Live Free or Die
How does a small group of people change politics? The Free State Project wants libertarians to concentrate themselves in New Hampshire and p...
The Greatest Misallocation of Resources in the History of the World
How do you solve a problem like the suburbs? For one man in Arizona, it means creating an agricultural utopia, replete with picket fences an...
Fighting Blight in the Gateway City
Three stories from St. Louis highlight different ways to combat urban blight, from fighting urban decay on MLK Jr. Drive, to turning vacant...
Paid Podcast: Elevating the Neighborhood
In the 1950s and ‘60s, Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard was a thriving commercial district beloved by New Orleans’ African-American community....
The Warrior on the Hill
Washington, D.C., may be the political center of the free world, but its 670,000 residents don’t have a say in the national legislature. Wha...
Building a Better Bike Share
Philadelphia has made a mission of making bike share attractive to low- income and minority residents, trying to buck the national trend of...
The Recidivism Effect
When Bennie Lee was only 13 years old he became a leader of the Apache Vice Lords, an African-American street gang on Chicago’s west side. I...
Placetaking: Squatting for House and Home
After punk singer Steven DeCaprio learned how to legally acquire tax- defaulted property in Oakland, California, by squatting, he decided to...
Bigger, Better, Greener
A decade ago, a tornado wiped out the small town of Greensburg. But the town decided to rebuild -- as a totally green community. Ten years o...
A Soft Landing in Missoula
Mary Poole has been a nurse, an arborist, a jewelry-maker, and a mom. But she’s never been a politician or an activist. At least not until o...
Paid Podcast: Mapping Urban Renewal
Over the last 40-plus years, Detroit has seen its economy falter and its population dwindle, leaving thousands of homes empty and starting a...
Internet for All
Chattanooga, Tennessee, has a lightning-fast, publicly-run broadband network that has attracted a lot of tech talent to the city. But as the...
The Matriarch of Spirit on Lake
Spirit on Lake looks a lot like any other apartment complex built over the past few years. But something very specific sets it apart from ne...
Self-Gentrifying in the Bronx
Majora Carter embraces the idea of “self-gentrification” in her native South Bronx. She founded a park in a spot slated to become a waste-tr...
Mighty Tieton
It’s no secret that climbing rents are driving many creative entrepreneurs out of popular urban centers. When Seattle book publisher Ed Marq...
They Tore Down Hell
Atlanta wanted an end to its public housing projects-- no more pockets of poverty, crime, and despair. In the 1990s, the city started tearin...
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