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The Cost of Carelessness

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On September 30, 2017
Tonight's film is far less scary than the Tom Price mustache of the previous post's image. It's the 1913 early traffic safety film The Cost of Carelessness. I like this film very much. I've used it in class many times and inevitably the students crack...

Rents

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On August 31, 2017

I'm a long-term renter, largely for reasons out of my control, which is the vagaries of academia, including having a spouse who lives several hundred miles away. I would like.

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Houston and Natural Disasters

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On August 28, 2017
I am a weather nerd (among many other forms of nerd). Every day, I check the National Weather Service's 5 and 7 day rainfall forecasts. I think I started doing this while freaking out about drought and climate change in my beloved American West. Plus,...

Stop the Sprawl

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On July 17, 2016

If cities are to keep growing, as they will, they must stop growing outwards and start growing upwards. The environmental and human consequences are too great to consider otherwise. As.

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Interesting essay on the connections between recent Black Lives Matter protests that block freeways and the long-term relationship between transportation networks and race. Transportation, however, has long been central to the black civil rights movement, with the Selma march, the Freedom Rides, and Rosa Parks's...

Sprawl Tax

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On June 7, 2016

How much does sprawl cost Americans every year? That got us thinking: What if we could quantify some of these same issues from a city-friendly angle—measuring not the cost of.

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