Like just about everything else about modern cities, apartments were a big change from what cities were like before the 20th century. “The Evolution of the Apartment,” a short article in The New York Times, traces the changes in the design of living space in buildings, and…
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“Our urban freeways were almost always routed through low-income and minority neighborhoods, creating disconnections from opportunity that exist to this day.”
1. Andreas Malm, Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming (2016) “The fossil economy has one incontestable birthplace: Britain accounted for 80 percent of the global emissions of CO2 from fossil fuel combustion in 1825 and and 62 percent in…
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