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Sustainable cities need more than parks, cafes and a riverwalk

Trina Hamilton, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York and Winifred Curran, DePaul University There are many indexes that aim to rank how...

The fallout of police violence is killing black women like Erica...

Christen A. Smith, University of Texas at Austin The sting of the premature death of 27-year-old Erica Garner, daughter of Eric Garner, is still fresh....

Architecture in 2018: Look to the streets, not the sky

Sean Weiss, City College of New York A decade after the global economic collapse, urban development is booming. This is good news for architects. Indeed,...

US shouldn’t give up benefits of ‘green card lottery’ over low...

Ethan Lewis, Dartmouth College After a man barreled down a New York City bike path on Oct. 31, killing eight, President Donald Trump reacted by...

What draws ‘lone wolves’ to the Islamic State?

James L. Gelvin, University of California, Los Angeles The recent attack on a bike path in lower Manhattan once again compels us to ask: Why...

Gentrification? Bring it

Jonathan Wynn, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Andrew Deener, University of Connecticut In July, a group of long-time, mostly Latino residents of Los Angeles’s Boyle...

At the beauty salon, Dominican-American women conflicted over quest for straight...

Melissa Godin, New York University When Chabelly Pacheco – a Dominican-American who moved to Long Island when she was five years old – walks into...

Remembering America’s lost buildings

Kevin D. Murphy, Vanderbilt University; Carol Willis, Columbia University; Daniel Bluestone, Boston University; Kerry Traynor, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York,...

EXPLORING NATURE

Colonialism’s legacy has left Caribbean nations much more vulnerable to hurricanes

Farah Nibbs, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Long before colonialism brought slavery to the Caribbean, the native islanders saw...