"Chris Arnade Walks the World" is a project by photographer and writer Chris Arnade who shares dispatches and photos from his walks around the world. He documents his experiences and observations in a Substack newsletter. His work often provides a unique perspective on the places he visits, as seen in his documentation of homelessness and the drug crisis in Phoenix.

After visiting and lamenting the most downtrodden parts of Phoenix, this is how Arnade summarized the area: Phoenix is a large grid of mile-long four-lane sides, with shopping plazas at the corners and an inside of twisting single-lane roads and simple ranch homes on half-acre plots. Those residential insides are the nice parts, and showing that they’re nice is partly why I’d come to Phoenix: to highlight a version of the American Dream, which, while I might not love and isn’t necessarily “walkable,” is still very appealing to lots of people.

You may view his entire post here.