What We're Reading: Page
Industry reads hand-picked by our editors
Sep 13, 2021
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NPR
The Federal Government Sells Flood-Prone Homes To Often Unsuspecting Buyers, NPR Finds
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The Mercury News
Why some say San Jose’s urban village strategy for growth is ‘driving development away’
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Reuters
U.S. lawmakers to vote on $10 billion for high-speed-rail grants
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Quartz
Smart cities are a legacy of 9/11
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The New York Times
Can a Green-Economy Boom Town Be Built to Last?
Sep 10, 2021
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Fast Company
How 9/11 changed architecture and urban design forever
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Next Pittsburgh
Self-driving car company Aurora making Pittsburgh its headquarters
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The Boston Globe
The mayoral candidates have designs on Boston
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Governing
Can Churches Help to Ease the Affordable-Housing Shortage?
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The New York Times
What Car Shows May Look Like, if Car Shows Have a Future
Sep 09, 2021
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Ars Technica
After ignoring EVs for too long, Toyota will invest $13.6 billion in batteries
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Route Fifty
How New York is subsidizing Amazon
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The New York Times
How the N.Y.P.D. Is Using Post-9/11 Tools on Everyday New Yorkers
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Smart Cities World
Computer vision and smart city tech deployed on e-scooter fleets
Sep 08, 2021
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The New York Times
From 4% to 45%: Biden Sets an Ambitious Plan for Solar Energy
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The Washington Post
Black people are about to be swept aside for a South Carolina freeway — again
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The Miami Herald
Realtors halt affordable housing ballot measure, will work with legislative leaders
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Consumer Reports
How Municipal Broadband Helped an Ohio Town Cope During the Pandemic
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StreetsBlog NYC
Mayor Voices ‘Concern’ Over Insurance Rules that Hurt City Residents Injured by Uber, Lyft
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The Boston Globe
Somerville mayor accepts job with clean energy organization, won’t run for governor in 2022
Sep 07, 2021
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The Washington Post
Scooter companies push back against proposed permit system in D.C.
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The Kansas City Star
Kansas City’s getting one major thing right with homeless people: listening to them
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The New York Times
Biden’s Electric Car Plans Hinge on Having Enough Chargers
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The Boston Globe
Bus drivers would benefit from free transit
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Kyodo News
Toyota looks to lead world in smart city tech with focus on mobility
Sep 03, 2021
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The New York Times
The Storm Warnings Were Dire. Why Couldn’t the City Be Protected?
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Wired
21st-Century Storms Are Overwhelming 20th-Century Cities
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Electrek
Tesla aims to release $25,000 electric car in 2023, likely will not have a steering wheel
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Chicago Sun-Times
Business leaders, residents call for $2 billion in federal infrastructure bill to overhaul West Side transit
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Grist
Study: The public is pretty confused by your climate change jargon
Sep 02, 2021
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The Boston Globe
As federal eviction moratorium ends, can cities alone stop the wave?
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The New York Times
New York City transit struggles to restart after severe flooding.
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Next City
And Now, A Transit Pass for the Occasional Office Worker
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Streetsblog USA
How the Twin Cities Abolished Parking Minimums (And How Your City Can, Too)
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Bloomberg City Lab
How Philadelphia Housing Repairs Drove Down Crime