Alexandra Staub

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  • Professor of Architecture; Affiliate Faculty, Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State
The largest public housing complex in the country, Queensbridge Houses, is located near the spot where Amazon plans to put a new headquarters. AP Photo/Mark Lennihan

Amazon’s move will gentrify neighborhoods – at what social cost?

Alexandra Staub, Penn State

When large companies move into an area, the result is often gentrification. When this happens, the economic and social costs for displaced residents is typically high.
A luxury home near Philadelphia. Alexandra Staub

Is bigger really better?

Alexandra Staub, Penn State

Middle-class houses in the US have grown ever larger. The average single-family home is almost twice the size of a home in the 1960s. It’s time to consider the downsides of sizing up.

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