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We Aren’t Collecting Data about 女性 and that Could Mean the Difference Between Life and Death
Mashable
“因为没有收集关于女性的数据, designers and scientists look through the prism of the ‘default male’ — seeing men as the human default when designing products, 药物, 我们的街道, 和城市”. 女性 have been historically left out from data collection which is not only sexist, 但这让女性在生活的各个方面都面临更大的风险. 通过将世界上50%以上的人口排除在研究之外, 它们也被排除在溶液之外. 克里亚多·佩雷斯的新书， 看不见的女人:揭露为男人设计的世界中的数据偏见, chronicles the ways in which the lack of data about women have put them at risk. For instance: Because there are no female-bodied crash-test dummies in the auto industry, seatbelt-wearing women in car crashes are 47 percent more likely to be injured than men. Not only is this a horrifying statistic, but an easily avoidable one too.
人民的宫殿
看不见的99%
Social infrastructure is the invisible glue that binds communities together. 让整个社区分崩离析 将会崩溃, 但如果你投资社会基础设施，比如图书馆, 公园, 或学校, 其结果是非常生动的. 在20年代th 世纪 破窗理论 was used to explain that people would feel more likely to get away with crime in a neighborhood with broken windows, 反过来, 鼓励更多犯罪. 这一理论被用来作为增加警力的理由，之后，拦截搜身政策. 但是如果窗户被修理了呢? This is the question that The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society wanted to explore. 这个小组开始制作简单的interventions on abandoned lots like mowing the grass and creating pocket 公园. The results were fascinating- gun violence dropped by almost 40% around the abandoned properties. When people see investment in their neighborhood, they’re more likely to respect it. 一点点的爱会让你走很长的路.
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Cities Quiz: Can You Identify these World Cities from their 密度 Maps Alone?
《AG平台》
你能根据它的密度辨认出这个城市吗?
The LSE Urban Age Programme has created urban density heat maps of 100km2 全球各地. The greater the spike, the greater the density, but the answers might still surprise you…
随着成本飙升，更多的美国企业将面临破产.S. 城市停止回收
《AG平台》
Plastic waste is one of the largest contributors to environmental degradation in the world and thanks to massive changes to America’s recycling program, 事情会变得更糟. 到底是什么?se变化? Well, recycling programs across the country have been quietly shutting down. 费城是now burning half of its recyclable material thanks to changes in global recycling markets. 直到2018年， 中国是美国可回收商品的主要买家 which allowed the US to export a huge portion of their recycling overseas. After investigation, China determined that there was too much trash mixed in with the recyclable materials and they would no longer be purchasing them, leavin美国有一个国家的资源回收需要处理. Hundreds of cities and towns across the US have cancelled their recycling programs or 有没有限制他们接受的材料类型. 这种转变在美国各地引起了应有的强烈抗议， 照亮了国家的回收利用 很多人 我们不知道. US cities that have kept their recycling programs have now had to explore alternative end of the line options like burning. 也许 这将鼓励人们不再使用一次性塑料制品 鼓励循环的产品生命周期 而不是 让市政当局手忙脚乱 对于尾端解决方案.
为什么我.A.中国的专车司机举行罢工
CityLab
Rideshare services have completely disrupted our relationship to transportation, 但它们对城市来说是否是一件好事并不容易回答. Uber and Lyft have maintained contentious relationships with their drivers, 让人们注意到有时 威胁生命的 不稳定劳动的压力源. Neither Uber nor Lyft consider their drivers as employees, but rather as independent contractors. This exempts them from benefits and makes it difficult for drivers to form unions. 上周, 此前，优步宣布将洛杉矶司机的工资削减25%, 数百名拼车司机举行罢工以示抗议. “利率这么低, the only way to survive is to be constantly chasing surges” said one Uber driver. 在高峰时段，司机会收到频繁的通知, which gamifies their relationship to work and encourages them to drop everything to chase the chance to make some more money. 两家公司都准备在未来几周进行IPO, 据估计，优步的市值可能高达1200亿美元. Whether or not this strike will affect their valuation is too soon to say, but for a company that’s become embedded in the lives of people around the world, 公平和合乎道德的劳资关系应该是绝对的.
