#Urbanization

Brian Asquith

basquith827

This substack post expressing mild skepticism about COVID-caused decline in superstar cities was excellent, but! I think Noah draws on economics in a couple of places where it's ossified into

Judd Devermont

JDevermont

U.S. policy toward Africa is in need of a facelift—in both substance and strategic vision—to keep up with the region's growing influence on the world stage. The current policy drift

Phoenix Woman 🍩

PhoenixWomanMN

I got an email from the Indivisible group today, with their explanation of why they support the Defund the Police movement. The email contained so much BS that I felt

Katie Patrick

katiepatrick

I made this infographic slideshow that shows the data behind extreme urban heat (see thread). HD map of Los Angeles' heat last August https://bit.ly/31xpviU . Tag or introduce me

Dustin Reichard

JuncoWren

New paper out in @AnimBehSociety with @meelyn_pandit, @JuncoProject, @ketterso, @mostly_waxbills, and Trevor Price. Higher frequency songs of urban juncos persist in a common garden for three years! Read on for

Hassan Javid

HassanJavid_

Understanding dynastic politics in Pakistan - A Thread 1. In debates on social media, critics of the PTI are often accused of supporting 'dynastic' parties. The idea is that because

Li Jin

ljin18

At the turn of the 20th century, in the wake of the Industrial Revolution, agrarian society and cottage industries gave way to urbanization, mass production, and corporate employment.Now, new internet

Jenny Schuetz

jenny_schuetz

Just starting: #AREUEA2021 session on affordable housing. First up, Doug McManus & co-authors look at geographic patterns of housing filtering. Key findings: MSAs vary widely in income filtering rates (income

Ben See

ClimateBen

Scientsts: global warming of 3.2C is* hard to survive* hard to prevent* likely by 2090* possible by 2070* plausible by 2050* just one of many existential threats that mean a

Emilia C Skirmuntt 🦇🧬🦠

ESkirmuntt

Where did SARS-CoV2 come from? (a THREAD)The answer is... We don't know! (you should get used to it). But we can hypothesize. Let's tackle the first thing: laboratory escape is

Manuel Gago

magago

You need to travel more than you ever imagined, don't you? Let's try to solve it! Come with me to visit one of the most spectacular Iron Age hillforts of

rayan39c

rayan39c

The impact Bolsonaro's' presidency has had on the environmental integrity of the Amazon rainforest#39CSustain @39CSustain Prior to the election of Jair Bolsonaro as president of Brazil, deforestation rates had gradually

Aabhas Maldahiyar 🇮🇳

Aabhas24

1/n #Secularism This thread explains the history and idea about it.But before we dwell deeper, we must understand that Secularism is about "Religion" not "Dharma". And, Dharma ≠ Religion (explained

Anurag Shukla

Anuraag_Shukla

This paper, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, examines how a wealthy class of farmers that is increasingly involved in urban business uses a combination of party connections, cash, & coercion to

Marco Chitti

ChittiMarco

1/ This is a difficult thread I've longtime planned to do. I confess that, unlike many in here, I still have some sympathies for the "preservationist" or "heritage" argument in

El

elshadai_g

Happy birthday to Emperor Haile Selassie, one of the most iconic and brilliant monarchs in history. The following thread describes some of Haile Selassie's greatest achievements & the many reforms

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