Tourism activity in areas with a rise in Airbnb rentals could spill over into complementary industries, such as the restaurant business, unless those neighborhoods are predominantly black or Hispanic, a new study suggests.
Social Sciences
Jul 11, 2018
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We've all seen the photos of Detroit when it was at its lowest point after the 2008 recession: street after street of vacant lots and abandoned homes—a city in visible decline. It might have been the poster child for urban ...
Environment
Jun 19, 2018
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A new USC analysis of air quality data shows sharply different levels of air pollution across the Los Angeles area, with Chinatown suffering from the unhealthiest air. Altadena had the lowest air pollution.
Environment
Jun 14, 2018
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Children who attend school with many kids from violent neighborhoods can earn significantly lower test scores than peers with classmates from safer areas, according to a new Johns Hopkins University study.
Social Sciences
Jun 12, 2018
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Residents and anti-gentrification activists tend to fear gentrification will lead to displacement by white residents while some experts believe it's an optimistic sign of an economic boom that would enable people to rise ...
Social Sciences
May 1, 2018
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A graph structure is extremely useful for predicting properties of its constituents. The most successful way of performing this prediction is to map each entity to a vector through the use of deep neural networks. One may ...
Computer Sciences
Apr 30, 2018
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"White flight" from the city to the suburbs has long been identified as producing racially segregated communities. Some scholars have argued the behavior is motivated not by race but by a desire to live in more stable and ...
Social Sciences
Apr 10, 2018
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A mountain lion roamed through backyards in a neighborhood outside Los Angeles before wildlife officers tranquilized it.
Ecology
Mar 26, 2018
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Neighborhoods struggling with physical decline and high crime often become safer simply when local residents work together to fix up their neighborhood.
Social Sciences
Mar 22, 2018
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Think about the last time you looked for a new apartment or house.
Social Sciences
Mar 12, 2018
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