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Detailed New National Maps Show How Neighborhoods Shape Children for Life
Some places lift children out of poverty. Others trap them there. Now cities are trying to do something about the difference.
How Neighborhoods Influence Our Lives & Futures
Just as the home itself matters for its residents, the social environment of neighborhoods impact health outcomes. While physical components of neighborhoods are known to impact health, such as distance to resources like day care, schools and medical facilities, a growing body of research has found that the social environment is instrumental in health as …
How Do Rich Neighborhoods Exist So Close to Poor Ones?
The research of the Harvard economist Raj Chetty shows that the scale of inequality is incredibly small.
KPCC Asks: Have you ever felt out of place in your neighborhood?
Please take a few moments to answer our questions, and you’ll help inform an upcoming Take Two segment.
The Institutionalization of Neighborhoods—What Would Euclid Say?
Residential neighborhoods are faced with looming zoning issues that arguably threaten the very fabric of traditional single-family neighborhoods.
How to be a white neighbor in a black neighborhood
Don’t come in with a savior mentality hitched to your moving truck. Don’t start your own block club; join the existing one.
How walkable is your neighborhood? ASU, cities studying intersections' features
What greets you when you step out your front door? A paved sidewalk? Any bike lanes? What about street lights?
Why the Middle-Class Black Neighborhood Doesn’t Exist in the White Imagination
Stereotypes about spaces can be stronger than stereotypes about people.
Trulia Is Building An Encyclopedia of Neighborhoods. What Could Go Wrong?
How To Add Your Business to Google & Google Maps
When a query performed on Google implies local results should be shown the search engine populates a...
Is This What's Missing in Your Neighborhood?
Latina school teacher-turned healthy food activist was inspired to start a farmers’ market in her neighborhood so neighbors could not only have better access...
Neighborhood Start Fund Tutorial
Step-by-step instructions on how to submit your idea to Neighborhood Start Fund
Who's Afraid of Neighborhood Diversity?
The perception of demographic change can be more powerful than the reality of it, according to new research on how white residents can feel threatened by racial and ethnic shifts.
Can money create a neighborhood?
Across the country, developers are building megaplexes meant to attract eager shoppers and savvy diners. Curbed and Eater editors weigh in on the community effects.
Rough Neighborhood, Worse Epilepsy?
Living in a high-crime neighborhood may make epilepsy worse, a small study suggests.
Are Neighborhoods Making Kids Fat?
A series of new studies used GIS data to analyze neighborhoods chidren live and play in and how neighborhood factors play a role in childhood obesity.
Which Neighborhood In "The Good Place" Should You Move To?
Do you actually belong in Good Place or a boundless void?
‘Catastrophic failure’: How the LAPD blew up a neighborhood
Along with input collected by The Times from local residents, a report by the LAPD’s inspector general helps paint a picture of how guesswork and a laissez-faire management style led to what it calls a “catastrophic failure.”
How Community Ownership Can Stabilize America’s Neighborhoods
Sponsored: The emerging community ownership movement builds on the deep work of community development over the decades.
Are neighborhood ale houses losing their allure?
The front line of gentrification, as in most revolutions, is often the most dangerous spot. After a while, the avant-garde and new is no longer the target of those who resist change. It becomes a tarnished has-been, and, like all … Continue reading →
