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When it comes to adding badly needed new housing, it also matters where it’s built. Currently, about three-quarters of residential land in cities like Vancouver are zoned exclusively for the most-expensive form of market housing: detached houses. This drives up the cost of land on the scarce parcels where multifamily housing like apartments is allowed to be built.
To Solve the Housing Crisis, We Have to Increase the Housing Supply
jacobin.com
Focus on initial applications of technologies that solve targeted and specific problems. AI is often advertised as a one-stop-shop planning solution, but it will not magically remove the politics of planning and, at worst, can become yet another unaccountable black box.
The Art of Learning by Example
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In 2015, recommendation engines had already begun to connect people interested in just about any conspiracy theory — anti-vaccine interests, chemtrails, flat earth — to each other, creating a sort of inadvertent conspiracy correlation matrix that cross-pollinated members of distinct alternate universes.
How Online Mobs Act Like Flocks of Birds | NOEMA
Renée DiResta
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