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Bag by Bag, Janitors and Housekeepers Keep Bangkok’s Waste System Green
The base of the pyramid in Thailand’s recycling system is made up of hundreds of thousands of informal workers.
At the base of a pyramid that extends all the way up to a major global waste-export industry are hundreds of thousands of janitors and housekeepers, selling bottles and cans one kilo at a time.
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Getting Freaky With the Trash Cans
In what ways have cities gotten creative with the common street trash can?
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Housing Market Still Pretty Racist
A new HUD study found that blacks, Latinos and Asians were shown fewer housing options than whites.
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Keep the Rockaway Ferry
After Hurricane Sandy, the city paid for a ferry from the Rockaways to Manhattan. Residents are lobbying to keep it in service.
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Banning Saggy Pants and Controlling Public Spaces
Wildwood, N.J. has joined the ranks of more than 20 cities in America that have banned saggy pants.
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An Informal Currency for Slum-Dwellers, or a Nefarious Separatist Plot?
Officials are arresting spenders of Bangla-Pesa, an alternate currency that helps stabilize poor people’s finances, on charges that they’re trying to subvert the Kenyan shilling.
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Talking Public Space Beyond the High Line
Starting on June 24, a series of three conversations about reclaiming public space will take place on the High Line in New York City.
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INTERVIEW: Perceptions and Divisions in Pete Jordan’s ‘In the City of Bikes’
In a discussion about Pete Jordan’s book In the City of Bikes, a Philadelphia-based advocate talks about biking solidarity, invisible helmets and the class divisions that permeate urban cycling.
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Southeastern Michigan Takes Leap Toward Actualizing Transit Plans Started in 1970
Detroit finally has a regional transit authority. Now it’s on the verge of connecting Ann Arbor to Detroit via commuter rail as soon as 2016.
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Strange Days for the Urban Bird
Urbanization can confuse the relationship between predators and prey, disturbing the process of natural selection for wildlife in our cities
