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A community for urbanists on the Left to talk about public housing, transit, class and power structures, racism, gentrification and I guess zoning?
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@lemmy.mlhttps://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2024/07/12/florida-shows-how-make-passenger-rail-work/
The money is in routes too long to drive, too short to fly.
https://www.fox13news.com/news/brightline-offer-sing-along-train-rides-taylor-swift-concerts-florida
Taylor Swift will play a couple of shows in the Sunshine State this fall, and Brightline is offering special rides for Swifties to get there in style.
https://peoplesforum.org/events/revolutionary-summer-school-2024/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2BRE3u4OVg
A teaser for the publication available at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14730952241258693 see more at www.postgrowthcities.com
https://skillissue.bearblog.dev/finding-an-apartment-needlessly-difficult/
Finding an apartment is an unforgiving journey unto its own, actually I'd say it's a full-time job in certain areas of the world. So if you already work, stu...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/headway/highways-colorado-transportation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wE0.7zHZ.8dSfYjlKAIqx&smid=url-share
The state has made it harder to widen highways, and transportation officials are turning their eyes to transit.
https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/how-urban-renewal-ruined-everything
The destructive nature of urban renewal left the U.S. too scared to build anything at scale ever again.
https://bikeportland.org/2024/03/20/survey-reveals-depth-of-abuse-women-experience-while-biking-384965
Only three out of every 10 bicycle riders are women.
https://source.wustl.edu/2024/03/modern-day-redlining-research-investigates-wall-street-backed-rental-market/
Corporate investors “buy low and rent high” to populations who can least afford it. A two-year national study, led by Carol Camp Yeakey in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, will examine the impact that corporate investors have on renters, especially marginalized communities of color, in St. Louis, Cincinnati and Atlanta.