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When he looks to what’s ahead in 2018, architecture professor Sean Weiss isn’t excited about the next soaring skyscraper or sleek museum. Instead, three smaller projects stand out: a library in Brooklyn, a low-income housing project in Chicago and transitional housing for the homeless in Los Angeles. While they might not be backed by big-name firms or celebrity architects, each demonstrates architecture’s power to build, sustain and forge communities – something desperately needed, he says, in cities that are grappling with growing
inequality.
A group of professors who keep tabs on extremist violence have crunched the numbers to find out whether 2017, the year that Donald Trump took office, saw more deadly violence from the far-right than usual. The answer may surprise you.
Last week 27-year-old activist Erica Garner died from a massive heart attack. She was the daughter of Eric Garner, who died in 2014 when put in a chokehold by Staten Island police. Anthropologist Christen Smith explains how her research suggests a link between the two deaths.
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In Los Angeles, the architecture firm KTGY is repurposing shipping containers to build a transitional apartment complex for the homeless.
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Sean Weiss, City College of New York
Three innovative projects set to be completed this year are geared toward strengthening communities that have been left out of the economic recovery.
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White nationalist demonstrators guard the entrance to Lee Park in Charlottesville, Va.
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William Parkin, Seattle University; Joshua D. Freilich, City University of New York; Steven Chermak, Michigan State University
Despite all the media attention the far-right and so-called "alt-right" got in 2017, the numbers paint a different picture.
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Erica Garner takes part in a candlelight vigil.
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Christen A. Smith, University of Texas at Austin
Police violence is like a nuclear bomb. The initial impact only causes a fraction of the deaths to come.
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From our international editions
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Fabo Feng, University of Hertfordshire
'Oumuamua is likely a relatively young interstellar visitor from a binary star system.
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Gery Karantzas, Deakin University
What movies tell us is important in a parter – a nice smile or money – are exaggerations of fundamental evolutionary needs that actually do matter.
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Jakkie Cilliers, University of Pretoria
Africa is still witnessing an increase in social turbulence, unrest and protest. Only rapid, inclusive economic growth combined with good governance can make the continent less volatile.
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