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Zoning as Destiny: How Regulation Shapes American Cities
America's housing crisis, racial segregation, and climate challenges share a common origin: zoning laws written a century ago to exclude and divide.
Urban Heat Islands: The Climate Crisis in Concrete
Cities are becoming furnaces. This essay traces how design, policy, and inequality create urban heat islands and proposes pragmatic, equity‑first interventions—shade, water, surface albedo, zoning reform, and community stewardship—to cool the most vulnerable neighborhoods.
Stranded: Who Gets to Move
Public transportation is social infrastructure. How we design and fund it determines who can access jobs, education, and opportunity.
Medellín''s Miracle? Urban Design, Politics, and the Limits of Transformation
Once suffering extraordinarily high violence rates, Medellín remade itself through transit, public libraries, and public-space investments. This essay traces the politics, innovations, ambivalences, and lessons for U.S. cities seeking equitable urban transformation.