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A Black History (Virtual) Tour of New York City
Feb 25 2022
Welcome to the virtual tour of A People’s Guide to New York City! Unlike traditional guidebooks that highlight the glitz, glamor, consumption, and spectacle of cities, often at the expense of people of color, immigrants, the working class, and LGBTQ communities, A People’s Guide to NYC offers an alt
The Ward Valley Nuclear Waste Dump That Never Was
Feb 25 2022
By Tracy Perkins, author of Evolution of a Movement: Four Decades of California Environmental Justice ActivismGroup photo at the annual Ward Valley commemoration ceremony. February 24, 2018. Photo by author.Today, there is no nuclear waste dump in Ward Valley. This beautiful stretch of Calif
Why We Need to Reimagine Our Cities
Feb 24 2022
By Stephen Wheeler, co-author of Reimagining Sustainable Cities: Strategies for Designing Greener, Healthier, More Equitable CommunitiesAs one of the landmark publications of the last year in the social sciences, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, by David Graeber and Mark Wengro
Q&A with Adam Romero, author of Economic Poisoning
Feb 24 2022
Adam M. Romero is Assistant Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell.The toxicity of pesticides to the environment and humans is often framed as an unfortunate effect of their benefits to agricultural production. In Economic Poisoning
What NYC Taught Me About Oakland’s Urban Landscape
Feb 23 2022
By Mitchell Schwarzer, author of Hella Town: Oakland's History of Development and DisruptionIt was the spring of 1964 and the sea air caressed my face as my father drove us along the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn. He pulled off to a rest stop. We got out of the car and raced to the shoreline. “You s
What Fragments Tell Us About Cities
Sep 29 2021
By Colin McFarlane, author of Fragments of the City: Making and Remaking Urban WorldsI was standing in front of two side-by-side pictures, both black and white images of houses on an ordinary street. When I stood back, I realised that the photos were in fact of the same house. One image of t