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What We’re Reading | November 18, 2016
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A roundup of news and articles the Unfamiliar Terrain team is reading this week:
“Versailles in the Valley” (The Economist): What do the new, monumental headquarters of Silicon Valley’s tech powerhouses say about them?
“The Great Rent Squeeze” (CityLab): Households are spending larger shares of their income on rent—does this stifle…
What We’re Reading | November 4, 2016
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A roundup of news and articles the Unfamiliar Terrain team is reading this week:
“Africa unplugged” (The Economist): How will off-grid solar change patterns of urban and regional development?
“Visualizing the Toughest Challenges Facing Global Cities” (CityLab): Can enhanced data visualization help us tackle complex, interconnected urban problems?
“Is New…
What We’re Reading | October 21, 2016
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A roundup of news and articles the Unfamiliar Terrain team is reading this week:
Top-Down, Bottom-Up Urban Design (The New Yorker): Updating Le Corbusier’s Athens Charter at the UN Habitat III conference and charting the course of future cities.
San Francisco Makes a Guerilla Bike Lane Permanent (CityLab): The rise of the San Francisco Municipal…
What We’re Reading | September 30, 2016
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A roundup of news and articles the Unfamiliar Terrain team is reading this week:
Uber World (Economist): Uber, self-driving vehicles, and the future of transport.
Jane Jacobs’s Street Smarts (The New Yorker): Examining the strengths and limits of Jane Jacobs’s urban vision.
Self-Driving Cars Gain Powerful Ally: The Government (NYT): New federal guidelines for the…