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Max Holleran

Max Holleran is a lecturer in sociology at the University of Melbourne and author of Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing.

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September 10, 2024
Max Holleran
He Rebuilt After 9/11. But Was It the Right Plan?
There were multiple visions for the World Trade Center site, from housing to parks. Why was Larry Silverstein set on office space?
May 23, 2023
Max Holleran
Midcentury Modern Furniture Owes Its Popularity to the Welfare State
Danish design was a product of postwar social democracy.
April 25, 2023
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Make Parking Impossible
Cars have made American cities uglier and more dangerous. Here’s the solution.
October 26, 2022
Max Holleran
Los Angeles Has Always Been Burning: Remembering Mike Davis
The author of “City of Quartz” and “Ecology of Fear” changed the way we think about cities, inequality, and climate change.
September 27, 2022
Max Holleran
New York Dropped Dead, and Some People Loved It
Jeremiah Moss writes of the early days of the pandemic as a glimpse of the city before gentrification.
December 14, 2021
Max Holleran
How the Loft Generation Refused to Fit In
Edith Schloss’s memoir recalls a world of spacious, postindustrial studios filled with even bigger ideas about how to reform modern art.
November 10, 2021
Max Holleran
Homeless at the Gates of Disney World
Orlando, Florida, has become the epicenter of America’s housing crisis
June 15, 2021
Max Holleran
When the Government Supported Writers
The Federal Writers’ Project created jobs, built trust, and invigorated American literature. We should try it again.
December 3, 2020
Max Holleran
The Future of Staying Home
What is lost when houses become fortresses against fires, floods, and disease?
September 13, 2019
Max Holleran
The Water Wars Are Here
In a warming world, fights over water usage have become ideological battles.
April 2, 2019
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The Dean
Out of the ruins of war, Walter Gropius made a vital political community.
November 20, 2018
Max Holleran
Retirement in America? Too Expensive.
A new book examines the lives of expats in Ecuador and their struggle to stay in the middle class.
July 19, 2018
Max Holleran
The Abandonment of Flint
A new book examines the making of a completely preventable health crisis.
February 16, 2018
Max Holleran
The Opportunistic Rise of Europe’s Far Right
Across the continent, racist groups have used the war on terror to gain a new platform.
November 27, 2017
Max Holleran
The Promise of Legal Pot
America came close to legalizing marijuana in the 1970s. What went wrong?
August 2, 2017
Max Holleran
How Fast Food Chains Supersized Inequality
Fast food did not just find its way to low-income neighborhoods. It was brought there by the federal government.
April 14, 2017
MagazineMax Holleran
Marshall Berman’s Freestyle Marxism
His writings taught the left to embrace the culture of the moment.
November 22, 2016
MagazineMax Holleran
Bright Lights, Small Government
Why libertarians adore Jane Jacobs.

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