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Selling a sports team is much more complicated than selling assets found in a typical estate, such as houses and cars.
There are better ways for teams to cut their climate impact.
Americans are realizing that the country’s two-tiered system of market-rate housing and government-operated, low-income housing isn’t doing the trick.
Public media can’t replace everything that’s been lost during journalism’s economic crisis. But it has plugged some major holes, particularly at the local level.
Have you heard of the 3+30+300 rule for urban forestry? See how Melbourne and Sydney compare to New York, Denver, Seattle, Buenos Aires, Amsterdam and Singapore on trees, canopy and park proximity.
Ending institutional racism is a long-term goal and requires well-informed and engaged people to remake systems and structures
From an economic development perspective, the highly skewed nature of AI activity in the US is likely to create large pools of high-skilled workers in some regions while leaving other regions behind.
Casteism is commonly seen as a form of discrimination limited to South Asia. However, diaspora communities in Canada are also grappling with issues of caste.
Washington isn’t a state that typically comes to mind in discussions about student-led protests from the Civil Rights Movement. A Black history professor seeks to change that with a new book.
Despite growing public criticism over how much counties, cities and towns spend on policing, many are increasing officer pay.
The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle, set up by Black Lives Matter protesters, has some strong similarities with the 1871 Paris Commune.
Turning food scraps and yard trimmings into compost improves soil, making it easier for people to grow their own food. City composting programs spread those benefits more widely.
An emergency and critical care physician gives a dispatch from the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.
Many cities have no standard method for counting the number of people who live in their cars. This means that their issues are often overlooked in policies designed to help the homeless.
The number of Airbnb properties has exploded since its founding in 2008. A hospitality management expert looked at how this has hurt hotels.
Immersion in the development strategy and digestive system of Amazon, the online ogre that prioritises growth at all costs.
The 737 Max is the best-selling airliner ever. But two have crashed in five months, killing 346, damaging Boeing’s future and raising questions about the increasing sophistication of cockpit technology.
On Feb. 6, 1919, half of Seattle’s workforce went on strike over a demand for higher wages. A labor historian explains why it matters 100 years later.
Research shows that access to urban green space makes people and neighborhoods healthier. But parks can’t work their magic if their design ignores the needs of nearby communities.
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Assistant Professor of History, University of Oregon
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Professor, Food Economics, University of Guelph
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Lecturer in Housing Studies, University of Stirling
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Professor of Sociology, Seattle Pacific University
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Professor, Landscape Architecture, History, and Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington
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Associate Professor of Microbiology, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor of Sport Management, University of Michigan
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Assistant in Research in Sports Management, University of Michigan
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Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Biology and the Built Environment, University of Oregon
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Business Professor, Neoma Business School
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Distinguished Professor, Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, & Head, Department of Sustainability, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Professor of Sociology, Seattle Pacific University