cities
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How trash can reveal an urban landscape’s ‘invisible realities’
New assistant professor Dietmar Offenhuber wants to make cities and their infrastructures more legible in order to improve their governance. One of his approaches involves…
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3Qs: Detroit’s ‘perfect storm’
This month, Detroit became the largest American city to declare bankruptcy.The outcome is in part the result of federal policies that subsidized suburban sprawl, according…
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Resilient cities need resilient citizens
In the days after the Boston Marathon bombings, declarations of support from across the country flooded my Facebook feed in the form of graphic memes,…
