Cities for People
David Maddox,
New York .
13 December 2016
Art, Science, Action: Green Cities Re-imagined
David Maddox, New York .
Other Essays on: 26 Visions for Urban Equity, Inclusion and Opportunity
Justice from the Ground Up
Julie Bargmann, Charlottesville
Soil contamination is a baseline condition for most of the sites I’ve worked on over the past two decades. The toxic imprint derives from industry—steel production, shipbuilding, fabrication of automobile and machine parts, to name just a few—in both urban and rural settings. But it also comes from lead-containing gasoline...
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The Case for All In Cities
Angela Glover Blackwell, New York
People of color are at the center of a demographic shift that will fundamentally change the global urban landscape. From the growing proportions of Latino, Asian, and African American residents in resurgent cities of the United States, to the diversifying capitals of Europe and the booming metropolises of Asia, Africa,...
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Home-Grown Justice In a Legacy City
Karen Freeman-Wilson, Gary
I am the mayor of a legacy city, a city that rose and fell on the fluctuations of an industrial marketplace. Like Detroit, Cleveland, and dozens of other cities that have experienced continuous population and job loss since their peak, my hometown of Gary, Indiana, once provided the backbone of...
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Urban Spaces and the Mattering of Black Lives
Darnell Moore, New York
It was close to midnight. A youngish, jovial-looking white woman with russet colored hair ran by me with ostensive ease. She donned earphones and dark, body-fitting jogging attire. I was walking home from the A train stop and along Lewis Avenue, which is a moderately busy thoroughfare that runs through...
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SCIENCE &
TOOLS
5 January 2014
Three M’s for Empowering Volunteer Urban Foresters: Mobilizing, Mapping, and Monitoring
Local governments planted millions of young trees on urban streets throughout the United States during the first decade of the 21st Century. From Los Angeles to New York, large cities made prodigious investments in urban reforestation and wrote off the...
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PEOPLE &
COMMUNITITES
7 June 2016
How Edible is My City?
I find myself choosing the title for this contribution at a time of personal, public, and professional dilemma. Strangely, the dilemma stems from the need to vindicate the question itself. While it is perfectly acceptable to ask how green, how healthy, how prosperous or how popular a city is, the concept of a sustainable urban food cycle is not yet...
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PLACE &
DESIGN
9 February 2014
Bangkok: Beautiful Mess
Walking in Bangkok is a messy experience. It is impossible to predict a change of grade or width of sidewalk under your feet. That is if there is a sidewalk. Similarly it is impossible to predict if the next building...
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ART &
AWARENESS
17 July 2018
When a Korean Hillside Town Disappears, Who will Notice?
A review of “A Local Neighborhood Traveler,” an exhibition of painting and drawing by Korean artist Se Hee Kim at the Boroomsan Museum of Art in Gimpo, South Korea. On the outskirts of Seoul, tucked away into a traditional hillside...
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