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The Solarpunk Meridian: U.S. Cities and Latin America''s Urban Innovations

American cities like to narrate themselves in asphalt and appetite—bigger freeways, taller chillers, longer commutes. Then the heat arrives like a bell the size of a sky, and the old grammar buckles. The most quietly innovative urban work of the last quarter-century has happened in Latin America—in.

Jan 17, 202630 min

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The Great Unbuilding: How tearing out the wrong highways can stitch a republic back together

Stand beneath the I-10 over Claiborne in Tremé and listen: the concrete hums like a bad memory. A neighborhood that once gathered under live oaks now measures shade in rebar geometry. We inherited miles of this: structures poured in the name of 'mobility' that severed streets, businesses, lungs—and.

Aug 28, 202530 min