Tag: neighborhoods
LA fires showed how much neighborliness matters for wildfire safety –...
Elizabeth A. Logan, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and William Deverell, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Inside an urban heat island, one street can be much hotter...
Dan O'Brien, Northeastern University
It’s summer, and it’s been hot, even in northern cities such as Boston. But not...
Gentrification isn’t inevitable − it can hinge on how residents view...
Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Sarah Mayorga, Brandeis University
Gentrification has become a familiar...
Debunking stereotypes about mobile homes could make them a new face...
Zachary Lamb, University of California, Berkeley; Jason Spicer, University of Toronto, and Linda Shi, Cornell University
When you hear...
A new solution for America’s empty churches: A change of faith
Ashima Krishna, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Over the past few decades, vacant and underutilized churches have become a familiar sight...
How dogs help keep multiracial neighborhoods socially segregated
Sarah Mayorga-Gallo, University of Massachusetts Boston
Cities in the United States are getting less segregated and, according to a recent national survey, most Americans value...
EXPLORING NATURE
The western US is in a snow drought, and storms have...
Alejandro N. Flores, Boise State University
Much of the western U.S. has started 2026 in the midst of a...
