Repair Cafes Are the Beating Heart of the Right-to-Repair Movement
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by Darren Cotton
1w ago
Op-ed: Right-to-repair legislation is crucial to systemic change. But every item salvaged through America’s growing patchwork of local repair movements is its own victory ..read more
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Africatown Is Still Trying to Breathe
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by Christopher Harress
3w ago
Black and Hispanic communities in America's port cities are fighting an uphill battle against environmental racism and industrial expansion. Next up in Africatown, the Alabama neighborhood founded by formerly enslaved people: a new rail line ..read more
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The Pandemic Investment That Allowed Gig Workers to ‘Break Free’
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by Alexandrea J. Ravenelle
3w ago
Receiving unemployment assistance and pandemic relief funds gave some gig workers space to breathe – and rethink their careers entirely ..read more
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Affordable Housing Is Never the Only Problem – Or the Only Solution
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by Seth Kaplan
1M ago
Poverty doesn’t cause social breakdown, nor is social breakdown confined to areas with high levels of poverty, Seth Kaplan writes in “Fragile Neighborhoods ..read more
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It’s Time for City Planners To Be Proactive About Church Property Transitions
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by Kurt Paulsen
1M ago
Around the country, churches are closing, downsizing and selling their real estate. Urban planners need to be prepared ..read more
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The Black Immigrant Women Who Bought a Minneapolis Mall
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by Oscar Perry Abello
1M ago
Lack of access to proper retail space was crippling these immigrant businesswomen in the Twin Cities. In forming a commercial real estate cooperative, they’re going far by going together ..read more
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This Canadian Community Shows the Key to Thriving Black Urbanism
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by Sophonie Milande Joseph
1M ago
Op-ed: For Black urbanism to thrive, it needs proximity to Afrocentric social, physical and economic infrastructure ..read more
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Individualism Is Making Public Transit Worse
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by Jarrett Walker
1M ago
For buses and trains to work well, they must meet the needs of many different people at the same time ..read more
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In Philly’s Chinatown, a Community Workshop Envisions Alternatives to Sixers Arena
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by Oscar Perry Abello
1M ago
Chinatown residents are working on new proposals for the downtown strip where developers are planning a new basketball arena ..read more
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Gentrification’s Roots in the Post-Industrial City
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by Andrew Lee
2M ago
Op-ed: De-industrialization isn’t just a Detroit story. It’s also the story of Silicon Valley, whose crown jewel, San Jose, urbanized to house workers for now long-outsourced microchip factories ..read more
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