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Urban Review: Parking, A Football Oz and How To (Not) Write About Los Angeles
This week, new data on parking, a review of a fabricated sports city, the problem with work requirements and a lesson in writing about Los Angeles (and all cities).
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National Partisan Nastiness Is Now Poisoning Local Politics
Zocalo Public Square | "Sometimes we couldn’t even agree on what to call our city."
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Families with Children Are Renting More
Houston had the largest increase in families with children who rented of the 30 biggest metropolitan areas between 2006 and 2016.
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This Is What Resiliency Planning Looks Like
OffCite | The Resilient by Design challenge offers lessons for resiliency planning that can address environmental crises as well as challenges in socioeconomic and racial inequity.
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Urban Review: Parks versus People, Prenatal Care in Texas and School to Prison Research
This week's roundup covers a new analysis of maternal risk factors across Texas, asks whether big park projects and the communities around them can get along, looks at law enforcement referrals in schools after high-profile shootings and even a Drake reference.
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Blue Needle In A Red Haystack: Why One Texas Woman Is Taking on the Odds This November
Amid a wave of women candidates, Lisa Seger of Blue Heron Farm makes a run for it.
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How To Improve The Recovery Funding Process
Eleven months post-Hurricane Harvey, what lessons have been learned?
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Voice of San Diego | As the government struggles to stay on top of the surge in prosecutions of those accused of entering the country illegally, prosecutors are making errors they normally wouldn’t.
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Urban Review: Extreme Heat, MUDs and Rainwater
This week's roundup includes extreme heat, municipal utility districts after Harvey and a smarter stormwater management system in Los Angeles.
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Study: When Looking For and Buying a House, Racial Inequality and Discrimination Compound
A new Houston area study examines how race plays a factor at each stage of the home buying process.
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