by Charles Mudede Charles Mudede
The return of the slum in rich Western cities is becoming inevitable. The increasing number of people living in RVs is a sure sign of its recrudesce in Seattle, a city that has no real memory of slums. It can recall the experience of hoods, for sure, but not proper slums. But in a period that finds inequality rising to levels not seen since the Gilded Age (the 1870s to about 1900), it seems inevitable that the defining urban features of that period should start p
The return of the slum in rich Western cities is becoming inevitable. The increasing number of people living in RVs is a sure sign of its recrudesce in Seattle, a city that has no real memory of slums. It can recall the experience of hoods, for sure, but not proper slums. But in a period that finds inequality rising to levels not seen since the Gilded Age (the 1870s to about 1900), it seems inevitable that the defining urban features of that period should start p