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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Urban Wonk
Are Global Cities Really Doomed to Become 'Citadels' for the Rich?
Surely there's something we can do about this.
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The Big Fix
The Best Thing We Could Do About Inequality Is Universal Preschool
How we can reduce crime, increase economic mobility, boost college graduation rates, and give communities more tax revenue, all at the same time.
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Maps
A Real-Time Bike-Share Map for the Entire World
About 13,000 people were out riding shared bicycles across the globe this afternoon.
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The Data Center Next Door
Can buildings full of machines make good neighbors?
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6 More U.S. Counties Are Now Majority-Minority
Welcome to your demographic future, Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Maps
The Geography of Hunger in America
More kids live in food-insecure homes in Los Angeles than anywhere else in the United States.
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Videos
Watch What Happens When You Track 493 People's Grocery Buying Habits
Researchers are using GPS devices to better understand where and how we get our food.
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The Point of Crowdfunded Real Estate Isn't To Make Everyone Rich
A young idea gets a little bit older – and gets some critics.
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Charts
Housing Discrimination Still Exists, in Deceptively Subtle Forms
How real estate and rental agents find ever-more subtle ways to keep a neighborhood white.
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The Big Fix
The Next Big Infrastructure Crisis? Age-Proofing Our Streets
By 2031, one in five people living in America will be older than 65. But virtually none of our cities or suburbs were built with them in mind.
