The historic zoning commission wrote a whitewashed story of a 100-year-old model home. The history lives a level deeper.
Alex Pemberton
In 1970, liberal neighbors organized against white flight and transformed Nashville’s inner city. Today, teardowns are selling for more than a million dollars.
How seeping sewage and an absence of urban services spawned spacious lots in Nashville’s white suburbs
What an archway tells us about the links between neighborhood development and school segregation
The East Nashville neighborhood serves as a bridge between two eras of suburban growth
Development has become concentrated along corridors and in low-income areas
A nearly 100-year-old complex demonstrates how the affluent suburb has maintained its exclusivity
The first of Nashville’s turn-of-the-century streetcar suburbs is lost to history — but one home tells its story
A humble landmark on Jo Johnston Avenue tells the story of how Nashville’s Black neighborhoods have been erased and redrawn