Culture
American Neighborhoods Are in Trouble
An expert on fragile states around the world turns his gaze toward his own home in a new book, and finds that the US is most vulnerable at the ZIP code level.
The root of “unprecedented” American social decay is our neighborhoods, writes Seth Kaplan in his new book.
Photographer: Richard Newstead/Moment RFThe following is an adapted excerpt from Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing America One Zip Code at a Time , out this month from Little, Brown Spark.
When people learn that my professional specialty is fragile states, they want to know: Isn’t America fragile too?