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Why More Homeless Shelters Should Allow Alcohol
Wet shelters may be connected to more deaths than we'd like, but they offer a last-resort home to the chronically homeless
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Concert of the Day: A Free Show at the Epicenter of Homelessness in L.A.
Street festival aims to reduce the stigma of Skid Row
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The Big Fix
After Demolishing a Highway, How Should a City Rebuild?
A round-up of the best comments from this week's The Big Fix
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Urban Wonk
A Boston Museum's Deft Attempt at Balancing Old and New
How the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum walked the tightrope between its founder's wishes and a sleek new design
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Photos
Great and Not-So-Great Subway Logos
A look at the best and worst designs from around the world
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Postcard
Postcard From Belem
A birthday for Brazil's port city and other news
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Do Cities Need Universities to Survive?
Four university presidents detail what they can (and can't) provide a city
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Urban Wonk
How an Ink Cartridge Trashed in Seattle Ended Up in Mexico
A group of MIT scientists chronicles the long, sad journey of our waste
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What the Eurostar's Success Means for California HSR
A new study shows just how much high-speed rail dominates the Paris-to-London trip and concludes it would compete with air travel from Los Angeles to San Francisco
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The Problem With Blaming Food Deserts
With less concentrated poverty, food access issues get more complex
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