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Psychotherapist April Preston speaks with Tonya Mosley of NPR's Here and Now about what racial trauma is, how it can be passed down, and how to address it.

A Space Force lieutenant colonel has been removed from his command after appearing on a conservative podcast criticizing the United States military.

Air travel has been in existence for over one hundred years. Since its inception, thousands of airports runways have been built – each one of them designed site specifically, and according to landscape and natural conditions.

Street networks may be planned according to clear organizing principles or they may evolve organically through accretion, but their configurations and orientations help define a city’s spatial logic and order. Measures of entropy reveal a city’s streets’ order and disorder. Past studies have explored individual cases of orientation and entropy, but little is known about broader patterns and trends worldwide. This study examines street network orientation, configuration, and entropy in 100 cities around the world using OpenStreetMap data and OSMnx. It measures the entropy of street bearings in weighted and unweighted network models, along with each city’s typical street segment length, average circuity, average node degree, and the network’s proportions of four-way intersections and dead-ends. It also develops a new indicator of orientation-order that quantifies how a city’s street network follows the geometric ordering logic of a single grid. A cluster analysis is performed to explore similarities and differences among these study sites in multiple dimensions. Significant statistical relationships exist between city orientation-order and other indicators of spatial order, including street circuity and measures of connectedness. On average, US/Canadian study sites are far more grid-like than those elsewhere, exhibiting less entropy and circuity. These indicators, taken in concert, help reveal the extent and nuance of the grid. These methods demonstrate automatic, scalable, reproducible tools to empirically measure and visualize city spatial order, illustrating complex urban transportation system patterns and configurations around the world.

The drive to get people back into offices is clashing with workers who’ve embraced remote work as the new normal.

FlexJobs surveyed over 2,100 people who worked remotely during the pandemic about various remote work topics. Here's what the stats say!

The deal was announced Saturday morning.

Sales slumped in April and May 2020, so the year-over-year (YoY) increase is large.   That will likely reverse in June and sales will be dow...

On Friday at 8:30 AM ET, the BLS will release the employment report for May. The consensus is for 650 thousand jobs added, and for the unem...

From the BLS : Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 559,000 in May, and the unemployment rate declined by 0.3 percentage point to 5.8...

Attempts to use artificial intelligence to diagnose and predict covid-19 have so far been unsuccessful, says Michael Roberts

City governments are embracing data-driven and algorithmic planning to tackle urban problems. Data-driven analytics have an unprecedented capacity to call urban futures into being. At the same time, ...

Potable toilet suppliers and manufacturers are scrambling to make sure that they have enough porta potties to go around.

Since 2017, the average rent in Fresno has increased more than a third, with new high-end living options and even deeper struggles for low-income residents.

Some residents have left the state, but many others have just moved out of big cities in search of more space and lower prices, creating hot spots in the suburbs and the once-sleepy exurbs.

Many renters seeking to move in New York City have to pay up to 15 percent of an annual lease to brokers — regardless of whether they helped find the apartment. After a legal battle, the state affirmed this week that broker fees were legal.

Nationwide puts annual rise at highest for seven years, with buyers looking for bigger homes and gardens

Nationally, 42% of Black households live in a home they owned compared with 72% of White households

Since 2003, U.S. household debt has doubled to over $14.5 trillion. We break down the components of this colossal figure.

California was a pioneer in minimum parking mandates, which drive up housing costs and climate emissions. Now the state is ready to lead the nation in reclaiming our cities from parking lots.

A tax exemption allows millions of Americans to skip taxes when they sell their homes at a profit. A Biden administration proposal would take a larger bite from some sellers with the biggest gains.