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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Walk Through a Japanese City Still Abandoned 2 Years After the Tsunami
Google Street View tours a town inside the Fukushima Exclusion Zone.
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The Strange Decline of the Philly Accent
Linguists are still trying to understand the surprising evolution of how Philadelphians speak.
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Videos
Aggregating Cell Phone Data in Search of the 'Pulse of the Planet'
Universal mobility patterns we haven't fully understood before could soon come into view.
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Videos
Inside the Thriving World of Bangkok's Semi-Legal Street Vendors
A beautiful video tour of two lives lived in the city's informal economy.
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Cities Dependent on Air Conditioning Might Be More Sustainable Than We Think
New research suggests that Minneapolis actually uses way more energy staying warm in the winter than Miami does keeping cool.
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Videos
An Animated Allegory of the American City's Oil Addiction
Sometimes you just need a Google Maps monster to fully convey the state of auto-dependency in America.
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What We Can Learn From the Brain Waves of Pedestrians
Enter the brave new world of mobile EEG.
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Maps
Mapping the Bones of a City
Every building in Chicago, mapped by zoning, size, code violations and new construction.
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Gay Marriage and the Power of Cities to Change the Country
What was once popular opinion – and public policy – in San Francisco could soon be the national norm.
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Maps
Who Writes the Wikipedia Entries About Where You Live?
And what if it's not other people who live there?
