Welcome To Urbanism Week
We’re talking all things housing, transit and the power to remake a space.
Urbanism Week
Remember The Time Tulsa Tried To Build A 3,000-Unit Urbanist Paradise In The Arkansas River?
Let’s take a trip back to the early 2000s.
Where Did Tulsa’s Neighborhood Pools Go?
A modern history of disinvestment goes hand in hand with the era of declining social cohesion.
Renters, Artists & Low-Income Households Are Bearing The Brunt Of Tulsa’s Housing Crisis
We’ve got unaffordable housing stock, skyrocketing rent and exclusionary zoning straight out of the 1950s. How did it come to this?
Tulsa Is A Recreational Cycling Destination. Why Doesn’t Anybody Bike To Work?
How to make bike transit a thing in America’s 48th largest city.
Comment of the Week
remarkable. that last image ... whew. great piece.
How Tulsa Walks, Plays, Bikes And Lives
Pony Coffee Has Always Felt Like Home
How Tulsa preservationists turned a house, thousands of bicycles, and countless pieces of art into the city’s best new coffee shop
Brave New Park
Politics, philanthrocapitalism, and public investment define the origin story of Gathering Place, America's largest privately-funded park.
Frankensteined Nostalgia And Places I Used To Smoke Weed On Route 66
I walked across Tulsa east to west. Here's what I saw.
More Art For More People
A fresh downtown installation scrambles how Tulsa thinks about public art.
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More Tulsa Culture
Mark Singer Thought Something Was Profoundly Wrong With Tulsa
The late New Yorker contributor coined the phrase “Okiesmo” to describe the charisma and hubris of our state’s oilmen.
When Liberty And Justice Aren’t For All
World Stage Theatre Company's "To Kill A Mockingbird" brings moral bravery to the front
Silkroad Ensemble Gives Tulsa A World-Class Gift
At Guthrie Green, Rhiannon Giddens led a global 13-member crew in a powerful night of cross-cultural music and dance
It’s All In The Family For Palomino Books and Music
Kendall Whittier's newest bookshop blends its owners' Cherokee and Mexican heritage.
My Aunt Died In 1975. A Stranger Showed Up Decades Later Claiming They Were In Love.
What it means to be together for eternity.
The Best Tulsa Events: June 24-30
"Lee Roy Chapman's Tulsa" book launch, Pride Street Festival at Elote, fireworks and more!
Know Tulsa Better
Searching For Simón Bolívar At Tulsa’s Plaza Of The Americas
A look back on a rare visit from the president of Venezuela in 1991 underscores how much American politics, oil and Tulsa have all changed since.
There’s No Better Time To Start Reading Eddie Faye Gates
One of the great historians of the Tulsa Race Massacre has some lessons for this moment
What’s A Truthstorian, Anyway?
Lee Roy Chapman didn’t fit the typical mold of a historian or a journalist. Good.
The Obscure Sci-Fi Author Who Became Tulsa’s Tall-Tale Biographer
R.A. Lafferty captured a city that doesn’t really exist anymore. And maybe never even existed at all.
Must Reads from The Pickup and This Land
This Is My Beloved Son
The fall of Tulsa's first family of televangelism came swiftly.
Horse Teeth and Heartbreak
Sheilah Bright hits the road with Edye Lucas, the best damn horse dentist in Oklahoma.
Data Centers Got You Worried? Wait Until You Find Out About The Bitcoin Mines
A state law that quietly passed in 2024 with help from a crypto advocacy group has already created a headache for one Oklahoma town.
What’s So Wrong With Oklahoma City Building A Tower To The Heavens?
On Legends Tower, a fishy nonprofit, and Oklahoma being for dreamers
