Tag: Urban development
How food became the perfect beachhead for gentrification
Pascale Joassart-Marcelli, San Diego State University
Everybody, it seems, welcomes the arrival of new restaurants, cafés, food trucks and...
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...
What lies beneath: To manage toxic contamination in cities, study their...
James R. Elliott, Rice University and Scott Frickel, Brown University
Philadelphia’s hip Northern Liberties community is an old working-class neighborhood that has become a model...
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...
Don’t blame California wildfires on a ‘perfect storm’ of weather events
Gregory L Simon, University of Colorado Denver
Late evening on Oct. 8, a series of fires ignited in Northern California’s famous Wine Country region. The...
Americans who live far from coasts should also be worried about...
Nina Lam, Louisiana State University
Catastrophic flooding in Houston from Hurricane Harvey is the latest reminder that floods kill more people in the United...
Cleaning up toxic sites shouldn’t clear out the neighbors
Lindsey Dillon, University of California, Santa Cruz
San Francisco has embarked on a project to transform its industrial southeast waterfront into a bike-friendly destination called...
In a New York City neighborhood, the challenges….
In a New York City neighborhood, the challenges – and potential – for America's urban future
Robert Snyder, Rutgers University Newark
When you exit the...
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If you go down to the woods today you’re in for...
By Jocelyn Timperley, The Conversation
In a rare conservation success story, research has shown that numbers of wild large carnivores in the continent have been...
