never staying in one place long enough to put down roots
Like a modern-day Jane Jacobs
"A poignant depiction of mental illness and suicidal ideation
All he wants is to blend in and not make waves—a bit tricky
beautiful illustrated endpapers
Road to Nowhere by Emily Lieb Urban Development never staying in one placeTraces the birth, plunder, and scavenging of Rosemont, a Black middle class neighborhood in Baltimore. In the mid 1950s Baltimore's Rosemont neighborhood was alive and vibrant with smart rowhouses, a sprawling park, corner grocery stores, and doctor's offices. By 1957, a proposed expressway threatened to gut this Black, middle class community from stem to stern. That highway was never built, but it didn't matter even the failure to build it destroyed