cities
The Era of Bank Branches on Every Corner Is Ending
Hamilton Nolan · 05/23/16 10:50AMHamilton Nolan · 05/19/16 09:50AM
Second-Class City Is First-Class Hellhole, of Traffic
Hamilton Nolan · 03/15/16 02:13PMHow Zoning Laws Fuel Economic Segregation
Hamilton Nolan · 01/13/16 02:28PMBanning Chain Stores Is Not a Bad Idea
Hamilton Nolan · 04/07/15 09:41AMTerrifying: The Creative Underclass May Never Escape the City
Hamilton Nolan · 01/20/15 11:02AMAmerica's Ugliest Accent Has Come Down to Pittsburgh vs. Scranton
Dayna Evans · 10/15/14 03:00PMAmerica's Ugliest Accent: Scranton vs. Tallahassee, NYC vs. Providence
Dayna Evans · 10/08/14 11:05AMAmerica's Ugliest Accent: Boston vs. Chicago, Philly vs. Pittsburgh
Dayna Evans · 10/06/14 12:15PMAre You Lying About Where You're From? The Real Borders of Your City
Jordan Sargent · 10/06/14 09:30AMWhere do you have to be born to say that you're from a given city and not be lying? Back in August, prompted by a New Republic article called "Don't Say You're From the City If You're Really From the 'Burbs," we asked you—Gawker readers—to tell us the real borders of some of America's largest cities. Here are your answers.
America's Ugliest Accent: Scranton vs. NOLA; Tallahassee vs. Minneapolis
Dayna Evans · 09/30/14 11:00AMWelcome to another edition of America's Ugliest Accent, where we as a country gather together to determine which of us in this great nation of disgusting vocal squalor has the least listenable accent. Every day this week, Round One of the Tournament, we'll be presenting two face-offs between cities. You, humble reader, will decide a victor.
Report: World's Cities All Becoming Teeming Hellscapes
Hamilton Nolan · 09/24/14 10:44AMNew York City and L.A. are Equally Terrible Places to Live
Ernest Baker · 08/01/14 11:00AMThe University of Chicago's Weird As Hell "Scav" Is Underway
Dayna Evans · 05/11/14 08:43AMWhose Good Life Are These Coffee Shops "Positive Markers" Of?
Reuben Fischer-Baum · 04/11/14 02:12PMSingapore Is The World's Most Expensive City to Live In
Dayna Evans · 03/04/14 12:00AMThis Is the Williamsburg of Your City: A Map of Hip America
Max Read · 01/29/14 11:30AMWhat is your city's Williamsburg? What's its hippest—or formerly hippest—or sometimes just youngest—neighborhood, the one with the art galleries and the boutiques and the lines for brunch? (And what, for that matter, is its Bushwick, or "Next Williamsburg"?) If you don't know off the top of your head, don't worry. We do, thanks to the collective knowledge of Gawker readers.