Some Black youth feel less safe when they visit predominantly white areas of their city, a new study in Columbus has found.
Social Sciences
Apr 10, 2024
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Using anonymized smartphone data from nearly 10,000 police officers in 21 large U.S. cities, research from Indiana University finds officers on patrol spend more time in predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods.
Social Sciences
Oct 24, 2023
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A trio of environmental scientists and city planners from the University of California, Berkeley, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the University of Miami has found that as motorists slowly make the jump ...
In Manaus, the largest city in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, tons of stinking trash fill the canals and streams, giving one the feeling that they're visiting a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Environment
Jul 2, 2022
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A wide-scale look at Detroit's urban gardens finds that while they don't seem to foreshadow gentrification in the city, there are some unsettling trends about where they're located and the sociodemographics in those areas.
Social Sciences
May 26, 2022
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The coronavirus pandemic has changed the way we live, and several studies have documented how those widespread changes in human behavior have impacted the environment. NASA scientists and others using data from NASA and our ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 21, 2021
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Low-income neighborhoods and communities with higher Black, Hispanic and Asian populations experience significantly more urban heat than wealthier and predominantly white neighborhoods within a vast majority of populous U.S. ...
Environment
Jul 13, 2021
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One thing that decades of social science research has made abundantly clear? Americans in urban areas live in neighborhoods deeply segregated by race—and they always have.
Social Sciences
Feb 11, 2021
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A new study looking at the patterns of movement from 400,000 people offers fresh insights into how a neighborhood's economic conditions mixed with the mobility patterns of its residents and visitors relates to the well-being ...
Social Sciences
Dec 17, 2020
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A new study by a Stanford sociologist has determined that the negative effects of gentrification are felt disproportionately by minority communities, whose residents have fewer options of neighborhoods they can move to compared ...
Social Sciences
Dec 2, 2020
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