Can Cities Build Their Way to Housing Equity? A New Book Suggests Not [psmag.com]
By Roshan Abraham, Pacific Standard, July 8, 2019. Solange Knowles, when asked about her song "Cranes in the Sky" by her sister Beyoncé for a 2017 feature in Interview , said the lyrics had been a response to luxury construction in her then-home of Miami. She felt the buildings kept ascending, without solving the social problems of the world below. Solange told her sister the song was about "this idea of building up, up, up that was going on in our country at the time, all of this excessive...