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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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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Urban Wonk
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.
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Traffic Pollution May Be Harming Kids in Ways We Never Imagined
Another reason to worry if you live near a highway.
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Maps
A Live Map of the Manic Ways People Edit Wikipedia
The map offers a nifty live survey of people's utterly random interests (or perceived areas of expertise).
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Maps
A Terrifying, Fascinating Timelapse of 30 Years of Human Impact on Earth
A new interactive project from Google, NASA and the US Geological Survey.
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The Demographic Milestone of the 2012 Election
For the first time, blacks voted at a higher rate nationally than whites.
