In the 80s and 90s, the 911 system in the US became overloaded with people calling to report things like wayward…
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Alissa Walker
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Alissa is the former urbanism editor at Gizmodo.
Last week, after raging for two months over an area the size of Delaware, the Fort McMurray fire was finally…
San Francisco needs help. It also needs to decide where to put bus stops for the hundreds of shuttle buses that…
A stunning structure built 150 miles inside the Arctic Circle will serve as a crucial research center for…
In 2014, New York City funded a proposal called the “Big U,” a 10-mile barrier around Lower Manhattan to prevent the…
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You might have noticed an uptick of stories about the Bay Area’s homeless crisis in your social media feeds…
Just the presence of streetlights can deter criminal behavior. A South Philadelphia neighborhood is trying something…
About six months ago, just as Flint began to acknowledge its lead crisis, a water testing expert from an EPA task…
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