Writing

Books

• From Steel to Slots: Casino Capitalism in the Postindustrial City (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016).

Journal Articles

• "Shifting Shorelines: Land Reclamation and Economic Blackmail in Industrial South Chicago," Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 1, no. 1-2 (2018): 186-205.
• “Wishing Upon a Star: Christmas Tourism and Urban Renewal in Bethlehem, PA,” Journal of Planning History 12, no. 2 (May 2013): 154-178.

Chapters

• “Deindustrialization and the Postindustrial City, 1950-Present,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, published online June 2018).
  
• "Spectral Shorelines," in Martha Bayne, ed., Rust Belt Chicago: An Anthology (Cleveland: Belt Publishing, 2017).
• “Chinatown Buses at a Steeltown Casino: Global Flows in a Risk Economy,” in Stephen Fan, ed., Sub-Urbanisms: Casino Urbanization, Chinatowns, and the Contested American Landscape (New London, CT: Lyman Allyn Art Museum, 2014).

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Public Interest and Editorials

• "Rust Belt Cities Gamble on Casino-Led Urban Development," Next City, September 15, 2016.
• “How to Reuse a Casino,” Huffington Post Blog, September 8, 2014.
• “Ticket to a New York Casino License is on the Chinatown Bus,” Huffington Post Blog, July 2, 2014.
• “Detroit’s New Task Force Report is ‘Blight’ on Cue,” Huffington Post Blog, May 29, 2014.
• The American Scholar, regular contributor to “Works in Progress” section.
  Sample pieces:
  • "Mapping a Hard Place," Spring 2016
    
  • "A Chronicle of Unrest," Fall 2015
    
  • "Pungent Metaphors," Summer 2015
  • "The Art in Amusement," Summer 2014
    
  • "Eight Hours a Slave," Spring 2014
  • "No Place Like the Projects," Fall 2013

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