America Is Finally Closing Prisons. Now What Do We Do With Them?
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The trickiest reuse challenge yet.
The trickiest reuse challenge yet.
The thing is, we can all imagine a tragedy like the one in New York this week happening to us.
Rather than trying to lure major retailers onto certain sites, the city is creating places Pittsburghers want to go and hoping business will follow.
These maps track the movement of transit vehicles in various cities over the course of 24 hours.
Hot temperatures and droughts are pushing people into cities, often with disastrous consequences.
Police work is still about catching bad guys--but it's also about understanding crime patterns and acting proactively to prevent incidents before they happen.
Also, an Indian town tries to prevent adultery by taking away women's phones and Washington, D.C., stops being so uptight about booze.
Districts that stopped forcing schools to mix students by race have seen a gradual but significant -return of racial isolation, especially at the elementary level.
NASA has unveiled the most detailed nocturnal image of Earth to date, and it's a stunner.
Seriously, how did it take this long?
As a white jazz musician in a segregated country, he fought for his black bassist.
Talk about an impressive retrofit.