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What we should learn from housing projects is that strategic defunding, carelessness, and racial exclusion & segregated facilities are not useful tools to employ for successful public projects.
On January 14, Governor Murphy delivered his final State Address, urging the legislature to act on his Executive Order 315 to achieve 100% clean electricity in New Jersey by 2035. We are now living in the Anthropocene era, during which human actions have significantly impacted the Earth. Policies that promote
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Trump’s inauguration was a horrifying spectacle. “We will end the Green New Deal and we will revoke the electric vehicle mandate, saving our auto industry and keeping my sacred pledge to my great American auto workers…In other words, you’ll be able to buy the car of your
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We read Butler's Parable of the Sower not as an aspirational blueprint but as a cautionary tale.
Reclaim your time and reclaim the definition of space “[Space] a means of production, it is also a means of control, and hence of domination, of power.” — Lefebvre Land and space are means of production. Without shelter and without a social space, you exist in a vacuum. The power to
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The devastating Los Angeles fires have claimed at least 27 lives as of January 15th, according to the LA Times. Of the 14 identified victims, many were older adults between the ages of 66 and 95 years old, depicting a grim scene for the vulnerability among our senior population. The
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Mitigation is instituting policies to keep global heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius and help us share and caretake the earth with other people and other creatures. The urgency of climate change often makes it feel like the window for effective action is closing rapidly, but it's important
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As a fifth-generation Angeleno watching my city burn was painful. The city is making an excellent effort handling this ongoing crisis, but as a region going forward we must do better. Los Angeles and its surrounding cities and counties, must begin to operate from a functional region rather than political
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More heat accelerates weather patterns and intensifies their force. Air circulation operates as a dynamic cycle: cold, dry air descends from the upper troposphere, creating high-pressure zones. This sinking air spreads across the Earth’s surface, gathering heat and moisture as it travels. Eventually, this warm, moist air rises, forming
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The mythical “ghetto” lead paint chip eater helped automakers hide its complicity with the harm of its leaded gas Car culture actively distorted the lead-crime crisis theory demonstrated by Nevin in 2000 and further supported by Masters in 2003. The automobile industry leveraged racist narratives of intellectually deficient parenting to
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"Most transport systems were explicitly designed for the solo male commuter," says Jemilah Magnusson, a spokesperson for the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, in an interview with Wired. On Philadephia’s SEPTA 65 percent of its transit users are women on New Jersery’s NJ Transit approximately
Urban public transit—buses and trains—is often perceived as dangerous. But what about cars and parking lots? Less than one percent of all violent crimes occur on public transit, compared to 7.3% in parking lots. Highways in the United States have long been synonymous with mayhem. From serial