"The concentration of poverty is really about the spatial organization of poverty."
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📷 When hedge funds can control the fate of an entire country’s future, what role does government have... tmblr.co/Z6CGvw23LrSNi
T. Piketty is correct about income inequality.. except for the fact that it's driven almost entirely by housing. bit.ly/1lx435Q
Turns out Uber is actually improving transportation equity in NYC... but making it more reliant on the private sector bit.ly/1fZ5XsO
Community Land Trusts are urban unicorns that ensure permanent affordable housing, but they're not easy to establish -bit.ly/1TknrwV
Numerous researchers have found the consistent trait of innovators is "openness to discovering whatever arises." 53eig.ht/1gQ2HRp
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Help make @pubintdesign better! Tell us what you want to see more of and we'll make it happen! bit.ly/pidnew
D-rev CEO on why designing products to improve health and income in emerging markets requires more than great design bit.ly/1qfLb9V
Interesting read: how a developer in Mumbai is using luxury high-rises as an incentive for slum-redevelopment policy. nyti.ms/V6z57S
Catherine Bracy on how civic hacking can help citizens actually build a better government. @codeforamerica bit.ly/1qti8Pq
Harvard Law School has a Public Interest Research Grant (bit.ly/2ygsd) so why doesn't the GSD have one? @HarvardGSD @pubintdesign
Crowdsourced machine learning maps the safety of city streets, is this the future of evidence-based urban design?
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What if we re-frame libraries as critical public institutions to combat social challenges?
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What if in the future access to free public transportation was considered a basic human right? nyti.ms/1gL9IlG
Twitter and the Police; the future of urban civic-minded social media? bit.ly/QAelTa
"Entrepreneurship Is Not A Resiliency Strategy" Harsh but honest critique on how start-ups fail to meet Nola's needs bit.ly/1kGs2JI
Interesting article citing research on bacteria in buildings and understanding where architecture and biology overlap bit.ly/1bo77Wu
Great talk by bcWORKSHOP founder Brent Brown on public design. bcworkshop.org/bcW/what-is-p…




