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Chicago invests in resilient ecological infrastructure

Leslie Kaufman in the New York Times has a good article, A City Prepares for a Warm Long-Term Forecast, that reviews Chicago’s efforts to improve its ecological infrastructure. The article describes the city’s approach to climate change adaptation: As a … Continue reading

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Mapping segregation and integration

On radicalcartography Bill Rankin has posted some interesting and pretty maps of urban segregation in The cartography of segregation. He writes: Nearly every U.S. city is radically (and disturbingly) segregated, with stark divides of race, ethnicity, and class. I’ve been … Continue reading

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