This piece is an entry in our Eighth Annual Graduate Student Blogging Contest, “Connections.” by Andrew Allio The camera pans along the street, highlighting the abandoned buildings. Midway down the block, a bulldozed lot is littered with broken concrete, plywood, and other construction debris. It is May 9, 1967, and Ben Williams of KPIX News…
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California was pursuing a new transit oriented development bill, SB50. It morphed into a general housing bill, before being killed by a powerful Senator. His arguments, shared by other LA residents, was that they didn’t want local control taken away. On the surface, that sounds reasonable, who doesn’t like more direct democratic processes? But local…
VertiFarm to showcase trends, technology and expertise depicting the rapid development of vertical farming in urban areas The business and networking forum VertiFarm, together with the science-geared AVF Summit, is bringing the industry’s foremost players in over 40 countries together in Dortmund. Awaiting decision-makers in the agricultural, food and pharmaceutical industries are innovations, trends and…
