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How can we incorporate technology-enabled spatial analysis methods (such as location-based data analysis) and validate open data (e.g., census data, satellite data, GTFS data, POIs, etc.) to understand and respond to people’s public transportation needs in a responsible manner?
LAUNCH: The 100 Questions Initiative’s Urban Mobility and Transportation Domain Releases Its Final…
Uma Kalkar
Evil may result as well from good as from ill intentions. That is the fallibility and tragedy of human history—or, to use a different vocabulary, its dialectic. Nothing handed down from the past could keep race alive if we did not constantly reinvent and re-ritualize it to fit our own terrain.
Racecraft
Barbara J. Fields, Karen Fields
This echoes the conclusions of a 2021 investigation by Vice News which explored the police’s deployment of ShotSpotter in the cities of Kansas City, Cleveland, Atlanta, and Chicago and found that the sensors are placed “almost exclusively in majority Black and brown neighborhoods”. The investigation also pointed to several cases in which ShotSpotter’s high rate of false alerts led to police killings, including unarmed 13-year-old Adam Toledo.
Smart Streetlights Are Casting a Long Shadow Over Our Cities - Failed Architecture
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