Member of the Week: Michael Glass

January 29, 2019.Reading time 9 minutes.

Michael Glass Ph.D. Candidate, Princeton University @m_r_glass Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? As a former New York City high school teacher, I’ve long been interested in educational inequality. For my M.A. thesis, I studied the 1950s school desegregation movement in Harlem, portions of which were recently published in the JUH. […]

ICYMI: The First One of 2018 Edition

January 12, 2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

The Metropole stormed into January with some great content, setting the tone for an exciting year. What were our New Years resolutions, you ask? We simply have one: to continue putting out the kind of great research and reflection that makes our blog the digital hub for urban history, read by experts and enthusiasts alike. […]

Taxing the land: Henry George, NYC, and the land value tax

January 7, 2018.Reading time 23 minutes.

By Daniel Wortel-London The land-value tax is coming back in vogue among municipal policy makers and scholars of urban studies. If real property consists of both structures and land, and if the value of land is determined by locational amenities produced by a community, then that community has a moral claim to this value– or […]