Selected Bylines

“The Highway That Didn’t Exist—And Still Unmade a Baltimore Neighborhood”

Next City (November 25, 2025)

“The Most Peculiar City in America”

Journal of Urban History 46:6 (February 2020)

“Who Broke Baltimore? We Did.”

The Nation (August 8, 2019)

“The ‘Baltimore Idea’ and the Cities It Built”

Southern Cultures 25:2 (Summer 2019)

“Shove Those Black Clouds Away! Jim Crow Schools and Jim Crow Neighborhoods Before Brown”

P. Nicole King, Kate Drabinski, and Joshua Clark Davis eds, Baltimore Revisited: Stories of Inequality and Resistance in a U.S. City (Rutgers UP, 2019)

“Slum Clearance à la Mode: The Battle for Baltimore’s Tyson Street”

The Metropole (November 26, 2018)

“Baltimore Does Not Condone Profiteering in Squalor: The Baltimore Plan and the Problem of Housing Code Enforcement in an American City”

Planning Perspectives 33 (2018)

“How Segregated Schools Built Segregated Cities”

Bloomberg CityLab (February 2, 2017)

“Fortress Seattle: Why the Fight Against the New Police Bunker Matters”

CrossCut/CascadePBS (October 5, 2016)

“White Man’s Lane: Hollowing Out the Highway Ghetto in Baltimore”

Jessica I. Elfenbein, Thomas L. Hollowak and Elizabeth M. Nix eds, Baltimore ’68: Riots and Rebirth in an American City (Temple UP, 2011)