From Sustainable Cities Collective: “Parks are a part of our healthcare system,” said Dr. Daphne Miller, a professor of family and community medicine, University of California, San Francisco, at the Greater & Greener:...
Read MoreFrom Governing: The typical Los Angeles area commuter with an hour round trip spends a combined 20 minutes delayed or sitting idle during Thursday rush-hour traffic, but only about 14 minutes on Mondays. In Chicago, congestion...
Read MoreFrom Atlantic Cities: Major summer music festivals — like this past weekend’s Lollapalooza in Chicago, as well as Bonnaroo in Manchester, Tennessee; Coachella near Palm Springs, California; Summerfest in Milwaukee; and the...
Read MoreFrom Natural Resources Defense Council: I am lucky enough to live in a neighborhood with many large, mature trees. Our bit of urban forest is one of our community’s greatest assets, if you ask me. But, loved though they are,...
Read MoreFrom Huffington Post: The high rate of teachers cycling in and out of schools is detrimental to the education profession and worse for students, decades of policy and research asserts. But a new report from an influential...
Read MoreFrom Salon: Have you ever wondered why Aunt Jemima offers two instant-pancake mixes: one that requires you to add milk, eggs and oil, and another that requires you to just add water? It’s because Aunt Jemima knows that some of...
Read MoreFrom AlterNet: In the year that I wrote for a blog about Brooklyn real estate, I was regularly plagued by “trolls” — online commenters who write inflammatory or derisive things in public forums, hoping to...
Read MoreTennessee’s new way of evaluating classrooms “systematically failed” to identify bad teachers and provide them more training, according to a state report published Monday. The Tennessee Department of Education found that...
Read MoreFrom Fast Company: An NPR-designed decision tree makes an educated guess about whether or not you live in a city. We’re living in the early years of what many call the “Urban Century.” Cities aren’t just growing,...
Read MoreFrom Atlantic Cities: A couple weeks ago the folks at Cracked told readers that “living in a city makes you dumber.” There are a number of flaws here — beyond the obvious one of getting your science news from Cracked...
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