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Building a Second Brain

Tiago Forte

After World War II, the suburban share of the metro area population skyrocketed: by the 1950 Census, 45% of the region’s population lived in the suburbs; by 1960, 58% of the population did, and and by 1970, 72% of the population lived in suburban jurisdictions.

Segregation and the Rise of the Car Shaped DC’s “New Downtown”

DW Rowlands

Cycling along U.S. 93 was to experience a highway from the outside, the wrong side, to feel the wind and the kicked-up gravel and the impossible mass of a logging truck chewing up a straightaway, to understand the vulnerability of a soft and living body in a world made for machines. It was to feel a lot like prey.

Crossings

Ben Goldfarb

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