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Camden County roadwork projects | Camden County, NJ

(Lindenwold, NJ) – Several roadway projects will be underway across Camden County during the week of September 8…
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/22276/

Firefighters contain 10-acre natural cover fire in rural Camden County

Several fire agencies battled a natural cover fire in rural Camden County on Monday afternoon. Tri-County Fire Protection…
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/22232/

Fair returns to Ouachita County

The Ouachita County Fair will run through Saturday at the Camden Sportsplex at Fairview Park, 2708 Mt. Holly…
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/22200/

Investigators probe runway crash that killed 5 in Miami

MIAMI — The five people killed when an Amazon cargo jet ran off a runway at Miami International…
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/22136/

Orioles news: O’s snap six-game skid

Good morning, Camden Chatters. The 2026 Orioles may be teetering precariously over a cliff, but they haven’t fallen…
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/22117/

Harry and Meghan surprised by King’s letter on status | Camden Haven Courier

Prince Harry and Meghan were surprised to see a letter sent on behalf of the King, a spokesman…
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/22103/

Trump suggests renaming New Mexico

President Donald Trump suggested Sunday renaming New Mexico as “New America,” an idea he floated amid dozens of…
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/22086/

Two Weeks after 9/11; New York City

September 25th, 2001 We flew into New York City on an American Airlines flight from Little Rock. I…
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/22032/

Proposal to make Mt. Battie Street bridge pedestrian-only in Camden up for town discussion

The future of a vehicular bridge that spans the Megunticook River on Mt. Battie Street in Camden is…
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/22023/

Orioles-Guardians series preview: The probable nail in the coffin

Take a trip in the wayback machine with me, friends. All the way back to Sep. 1, 2026.…
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/22013/

Exclusive: Labour’s final three revealed in the race to be candidate in Holborn and St Pancras

Sagal Abdi-Wali, Nasrine Djemai and Camron Aref-Adib LABOUR members will select from a shortlist of three councillors as…
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/22004/

‘Rapt’: Lions star Bailey explains contract decision | Camden Haven Courier

Zac Bailey has signed a long-term contract with the Brisbane Lions. Photo: Morgan Hancock/AAP PHOTOS Brisbane Lions premiership…
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/21997/

ho is Sagal Abdi-Wali? The council leader favourite to be Labour’s candidate in crunch Holborn and St Pancras by-election

Councillor Sagal Abdi-Wali was chosen to lead the north London council in May this year, but could soon…
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/21989/

Spirit of Camden set to rock on for another year

Hot Potato Band at Spinout Rock and Roll Festival in Camden February 2026 was part of Spirit of…
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/21983/

Orioles vs. Guardians discussion | Camden Chat

Happy Labor Day, Camden Chat! I hope the Orioles don’t give you a back-breaking loss that seals their…
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/21970/

Tyson Foods cuts 2026 revenue guidance over beef pressures

Tyson Foods Inc. lowered its revenue growth guidance for 2026 as it faces significant margin pressure from a…
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/21965/

Camden Council Invites Input on Flood Plan Enhancement

Camden Council is calling on residents, businesses and landowners to share their experiences of past flood events as…
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/21957/

Every Step Can Lead To Second Chance This October

Camden Council is encouraging residents to lace up their walking shoes, grab the lead and help give local…
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/21951/

Cultural Fusion Set To Bring World To Narellan

Get ready to spice up your Saturday night, with Cultural Fusion set to bring a colourful celebration of…
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/21945/

Orioles pummel Guardians to snap six-game losing streak, 6-4

Two teams met today at 1:35 Eastern on Labor Day. One of them is sinking into irrelevance, limply…
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/21931/

Polanski faces Green rival in his pursuit of Keir Starmer’s old seat | Green party

Zack Polanski is facing unexpected opposition from his own party in his attempt to fight the Holborn and…
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/21896/

https://www.europesays.com/people/218807/ Who is Sagal Abdi-Wali? The council leader favourite to be Labour’s candidate in crunch Holborn and St Pancras by-election #Camden #CamdenCouncil #CamdenSquare #Holborn #keir #KeirStarmer #Labour #MsAbdiWali #Parliament #SagalAbdiWali #Somalia #StPancras #Yusuf

Zeekr to address big in-car complaint | Camden Haven Courier

Zeekr to address big in-car complaint Zeekr has heard your feedback and more of its cars will get…
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/21874/

Michael Irvin Gives Cowboys Rookie Camden Brown Hands-On WR Lesson

OXNARD, Calif. — Michael Irvin ran a workout with Camden Brown at Dallas Cowboys training camp, with footage…
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/21841/

Camden Green councillor says he will fight Polanski to run in Starmer’s seat – UK politics live | Politics

Polanski faces challenge to be Greens’ candidate for Holborn and St Pancras, as most Greens on local council…
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/21824/

Commercial cooking is the largest source of fine particulate pollution in London Borough of Camden

Cause of air pollution in Camden summarised in the draft Clean Air Action Plan 2027-2030. Source: Camden Council.…
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/21812/

Podcast: The ultimate rug pull by the Orioles

Anyone can really be forgiven for thinking, after the Orioles dramatically got back up to .500 after months…
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/21796/

The 2026 Orioles are officially a failure

One week ago, the Orioles were flying high. They were in the midst of a successful road trip…
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/21784/

Orioles minor league recap 9/7: Vance Honeycutt homers for Chesapeake

Triple-A: Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp (MIA) 8, Norfolk Tides 1 Oh dear, a humbling day at the plate for…
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/21759/

Jaguar Land Rover to cut 4000 jobs over next two years | Camden Haven Courier

British carmarker Jaguar Land Rover says it is targeting $A3.2 billion in savings. Photo: EPA PHOTO British luxury…
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/21749/

Orioles news: Swept out of contention

Happy Monday, Camden Chatters. If you’re off work for the long weekend, remember those in the Labor Movement…
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/21731/

A Maryland orphan who enlisted in Baltimore at an estimated 13 to 15 years old died in a South Carolina pine forest three and a half years later and went into a shallow grave with four other Continentals — nameless until DNA from a fragment of his skull gave him back his name nearly 246 years on

The grave was about 14 inches deep and no more than four feet wide whe…
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/21509/

Minister accuses Reform’s Zia Yusuf of ‘straightforward racism’ over remark about London by-election contender

A Cabinet minister has accused Zia Yusuf of “pretty straightforward racism” over comments he made about the frontrunner…
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/21463/

The Failed City: I Wrote a Book About What We Bury

I have been staring at a patch of asphalt in Jersey City for thirteen years. That is not a figure of speech. I mean that in late September 2013, I watched a road crew roll fresh blacktop over 150-year-old granite cobblestones on Baldwin Avenue in the Heights, and the image has not released me since. The cobblestones were ballast stones, carried across the Atlantic Ocean in the holds of empty cargo ships and dumped on American docks because the ships needed the weight for the crossing and needed to shed it to load American exports for the return trip. Those stones were repurposed as paving. They became streets. They outlasted the ships, the shipping companies, the trade routes, the empires that commissioned them. And in 2013, a man in a road roller buried them under asphalt because, as he told me with the patience of someone explaining gravity, cobblestones eat up tires.

That exchange is where the book starts. It is also where the book’s argument starts, because what happened on Baldwin Avenue is a precise physical enactment of a larger institutional habit: the preference for covering failure rather than studying it, for smoothing the surface rather than examining what lies beneath.

The Failed City: An Autopsy of Urban Collapse is now available from David Boles Books.

What the Book Does

The book conducts autopsies. Twenty of them, organized into five taxonomies of urban failure, spanning two millennia, three continents, and one diagnostic framework that I built to answer a question nobody in the urban planning literature seemed to be asking: why do we refuse to study the cities that died with the same rigor we bring to the cities that worked?

The five taxonomies are catastrophic erasure, economic exsanguination, the utopian misfire, slow municipal death, and the never-built city. Each describes a distinct mode of urban death. Each contains case studies drawn from published sources, government records, journalistic accounts, and in several cases my own observation. I have walked the streets described in this book. I have taught at the universities that serve them. The Jersey City Heights, Camden, Newark: these are places I know from the sidewalk, not from the satellite view.

Pompeii is in the book because it is the oldest and most complete case of catastrophic erasure in the Western record. Pripyat is in the book because it is the newest, a city of 49,000 people evacuated in thirty-six hours after Chernobyl and never reoccupied. Centralia, Pennsylvania, is in the book because the coal mine fire that started beneath it in 1962 is still burning, and because the state’s decision to bury Graffiti Highway under dirt is the most literal act of concealment I have encountered in any case study. Galveston is in the book because it was the largest city in Texas in 1900 and it is not anymore, and the reason it is not anymore is that Houston built a ship channel and absorbed Galveston’s port function, which meant that the hurricane that destroyed Galveston was fatal precisely because the economic function that would have justified rebuilding had already migrated fifty miles inland.

Gary, Indiana, is in the book because U.S. Steel built it in 1906 and then left. Cairo, Illinois, is in the book because its own governing class burned it down through a sustained campaign of racial violence so thorough that the city lost ninety percent of its population. Flint is in the book because the governance structure appointed to save money ended by poisoning the water. Pittsburgh is in the book because it did not die, and the reasons it survived expose the reasons the others did not.

Laurent, South Dakota, is in the book because it is the most instructive failure I have ever encountered. A planned Deaf community where more than a hundred families signed reservation forms and zero relocated. The idea was serious, the enthusiasm was real, and the distance between signing a form and packing a truck turned out to be the distance between a vision and a life. I have worked in the Deaf community for decades through HardcoreASL.com, ASL-Opera.com, and the CUNY-SPS ASL Program, and Janna Sweenie’s characterization of Laurent as a “Deaf Utopia” captures the arc perfectly: enthusiastic communal aspiration followed by collective inaction.

Where the Argument Came From

A colleague of mine at Rutgers-Newark, years ago, made a case for the publication of failure that I have carried forward as an intellectual commitment ever since. His field was research methodology, and his contention was that failed scholarship, research rigorously conducted that ended by disproving its own thesis, deserved publication with the same velocity and seriousness as research that confirmed its hypothesis. Journals published findings. Careers advanced on discoveries. The experiments that did not find what they were looking for were filed away, and the filing-away constituted a loss of the knowledge that the failure itself contained.

He was not a person I admired, and the reasons for that are his own business. But the argument he made that day was better than the person who made it. That fact is itself a version of the thesis this book advances: useful knowledge does not confine itself to attractive sources.

The Failed City applies that principle to urban collapse. Failed cities generate data. Abandoned plans produce evidence. Collapsed communities contain information about what went wrong, when it went wrong, and what the conditions were that made the failure possible. That data is as valuable as the data generated by the cities that succeeded. Our refusal to publish it, to study it, to assemble it into a systematic account, guarantees the repetition of errors that have already been committed and documented and then filed away.

The Diagnostic

The book builds a diagnostic framework with three levels: the baseline condition (what the city had before the crisis), the triggering condition (what initiated the decline), and the cascade (the self-reinforcing cycle that follows). The framework is offered as a tool. It works for every case study in the book, and I suspect it works for cases the book does not examine. The Prairie Voice article I published alongside this book, “The Other Side of the Blacktop,” argues that the same framework applies to rural collapse with equal precision. Any rancher in western Kansas who has watched the feedlot close and the equipment dealer follow it and the diner follow that can diagram the cascade on a napkin.

Jane Jacobs and the Missing Half

Jane Jacobs wrote The Death and Life of Great American Cities in 1961. The title promises a study of death and life. The book delivers overwhelmingly on the life. It is one of the great books of the twentieth century, and I assign it in every course I teach that touches urban questions. It is also a book that does not deliver on the first word of its own title. Jacobs studied what makes cities work. She did not study what makes them die.

The Failed City is the death half of the equation, the book that Jacobs’ title promises and her text does not deliver. Jacobs remains one of the great urbanists. The gap in the literature remains real. No comparable book exists. The field has single-city studies (Sugrue on Detroit, Gillette on Camden, Gordon on St. Louis) and academic shrinking-cities literature, but no cross-taxonomic diagnostic framework for a general readership. The Failed City is, as far as I have been able to determine, the first.

The Cobblestones

The cobblestones are still there. Under the asphalt on Baldwin Avenue, under the dirt that covers Graffiti Highway in Centralia, under the grass that grows over the graded roads of California City. The evidence of failure is more durable than the surfaces we lay on top of it. Asphalt cracks. Dirt erodes. Grass thins. And the substrate will still be there, waiting to be examined by anyone willing to look at what lies beneath the blacktop.

The answer is beneath the blacktop. It has been there the whole time.

📍: Bridge 24, Chalk Farm Road (A502)
ℹ️: road bridge
🗺: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.5413168136999&mlon=-0.145054125703321#map=17/51.5413168136999/-0.145054125703321
📸: Photo by R~P~M on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/28121598@N03/53482585146

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As I sail into my workday, I gift you all this wonderful article (from the Washington Post) about Mickalene Thomas, an artist of color in the US who has an absolutely sublime, energetic and tactile way of expressing social and physical ecology:

https://wapo.st/3GFELPT

Let me know what you think!

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