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MagazineWalking with my mother
In 2017, my mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. The city she once navigated with ease became dangerous and confusing, and I learned that it was worsening her symptoms. As a daughter and an urban planner, I wondered: what would a city built for disabled people’s safety and ease look like?
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MagazineA progressive response to transport costs must undo “the social ideology of the motorcar”
Mobility is not just how we get from A to B; it is about social justice and health, housing and democracy, and the climate crisis.
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Online-onlyFree transit is just the beginning
It’s no coincidence that struggles over public transit are erupting across the Americas. Free transit is about an end to austerity, a refusal of police power, and a demand for decommodified and universal public services.
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MagazinePlanes, trains, and workers’ gains
Toronto Pearson Airport is Canada’s largest workplace. There, workers are building up an organization that aims to match the airport’s power.
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MagazineResisting Uber’s rhetoric
If we accept the premise that “algorithms” (not capitalists) are asserting control over the future of work, it will be difficult to hold anyone to account for the human costs of unchecked automation. Finn LeMaitre reviews Uberland by Alex Rosenblat.
