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Rebuilding After the Storm: The Best #CityReads of the Week
Our weekly roundup of the most intriguing articles about cities and urbanism we've come across in the past seven days.
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Making Our Coastal Cities More Resilient Can't Wait
Hurricane Sandy is the wake-up call.
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Videos
An Urban Farm Puts New Orleans Teens to Work
Grow Dat offers kids a chance to learn about urban farming and hunger.
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Urban Wonk
Turns Out Where You Live Really Does Shape Who You Are
Those stereotypes you hear about people in Boston and San Francisco – there's actually something to them.
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Democracy in America
Preachers Exiled from Bourbon Street: This Week in Bans
Also, daddies are forbidden to dance with daughters in Rhode Island and doggy-steroid doping becomes illegal in Tucson.
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Building Urban Resilience Doesn't Require Much Building At All
Bouncing back from disasters relies more on pre-planning than concrete and steel.
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Urban Wonk
Pit Bulls, the Ultimate Urban Dog
Much like cities, pit bulls were unfairly maligned in this country for decades.
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New Orleans After the Storm
Pictures from the city as it weathered Hurricane Isaac.
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How the Drought Is Imperiling the Water Supply of New Orleans
It's not the way you think.
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Videos
Watch Isaac Creep Up on New Orleans, From Space
This space-based footage shows Hurricane Isaac swelling from a tropical storm into full-blown Category 1 hurricane earlier today.
