Tag: cities
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La Casa Review
Concrete Details: La Casa in Columbia Heights Is a Rare Aesthetic and Policy Success Washington City Paper, Oct. 15, 2015 The best building that’s gone up in the District in recent months isn’t a swish law office or a deluxe condo tower—although you might easily mistake it for either of those things, with its double-height lobby…
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The Mall as American Dream
Does America Still Want the American Dream? Twelve years after work began on a $2 billion entertainment complex in New Jersey, is another giant mall still an appealing vision? The Atlantic, Oct. 9, 2015 Driving north on the New Jersey Turnpike, past the proverbial smoke stacks and then across a brief interruption of marshland, a…
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Hearing Loss in the City
What It’s Like to Be Hearing Impaired* in a Big, Dense City An artist tackles the challenges of navigating dense urban areas with hearing loss. CityLab, Sept. 18, 2015 The multimedia artist Trish Adams began losing her hearing in her mid-twenties. She now wears high-end hearing aids in both ears and continues to communicate through…
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Why D.C. Teaches Kids to Bike
Why D.C. Wants to Teach Every Kid How to Ride a Bike Starting this fall, all second graders in D.C. public schools will learn to ride in PE class. CityLab, Sept. 1, 2015 Before the start of the new school year in Washington, D.C., as families were buying supplies and teachers were drafting their lesson…
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Cities and Child Care
How Cities and Counties Are Taking the Lead on Child Care CityLab, May 19, 2015 America is waking up to child care as a major political issue. Back in January, President Obama discussed it at length for the first time in his State of the Union address. “In today’s economy, when having both parents in…
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