Emily Badger
Emily Badger is a staff writer at The Atlantic Cities. Her work has previously appeared in Pacific Standard, GOOD, The Christian Science Monitor, and The New York Times. She lives in the Washington, D.C. area.
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Does Living Near Fast Food Restaurants Increase Your Risk of Obesity?
Research looking at African Americans in Houston finds a significant correlation.
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Photos
The Strange Beauty of Density Taken to the Extreme
Photos of Hong Kong high-rises that appear both claustrophobic and stunning.
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The Potential Problem With Personalized Google Maps? We May Never Know What We're Not Seeing
Google is promising a million maps for a million people with its redesign. But can it avoid confining us to customized urban bubbles?
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Do Rising Home Values Make People Feel Richer?
Evidence debunking the "wealth effect."
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Maps
How Twitter Is Changing the Geography of Communication
New research suggests that location plays a smaller role now in who we talk to and what we talk about.
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The Inequality of Urban Tree Cover
Minorities are significantly more likely to live in heat-prone neighborhoods that will be particularly at risk with climate change.
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Maps
The Way We Build Cities Is Making Them Flood
But the problem is not what you think.
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Charts
Millennials Lead the Trend to Less Driving, But What Happens As They Get Older?
Twenty-something Americans drive about 20 percent less today than their parents.
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Does Every City Need A Chief Resilience Officer?
The Rockefeller Foundation plans to fund positions in 100 cities worldwide.
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A Proposal to Make the Micro Apartment a Little More Livable
The dormitory meets the real world.
